Programme culturel

The whole cultural programme is free and accessible to all without booking, except the 22nd International fashion encounters (for accredited festival participants only).

UN FILM DOCUMENTAIRE DE KARIM ZERIAHEN EN HOMMAGE À MARIE-LAURE DE NOAILLES (durée 52min)

As part of the official opening ceremony of the festival Parvis

A free film

At a time when a real conservative resurgence is occurring and cancel culture is emerging in the West, it seems pertinent to shed light on one of the indispensable and symbolic figures of opening minds through the courageous avant-garde pursuit of the early twentieth century: Marie-Laure de Noailles. It would be paradoxical to portray Marie-Laure de Noailles in an academic manner, to conform to a mold, or to follow the well-trodden path of the classical documentary production, because beyond depicting the portrait of the greatest French patron of the 20th century, this film is about the very idea of non-conformity, difference, free thought, and beauty in art.

The challenge is to create a new form of documentary faithful to its subject, incorporating multiple archives, testimonials, and animation evoking the past and history in a parallel line with a second one, turned towards the present, giving room for the artist’s expression and recounting a creation that is entirely contemporary while paying homage to the essence of the Noailles legacy. It is, therefore, a living film directed towards today, liberated from standard broadcasting codes, nourished by the past, and heading towards a wealth of diverse, poetic, historical, and playful elements. The heart of these intersections resides at Villa Noailles, an iconic place of creation, celebration, lightness, dreamed and created by the Noailles for and with artists. The spirit of the Noailles is truly embodied in this place, characterized by benevolence and generosity towards those who push boundaries and channel the spirit of the times by creating timeless fragments of poetry.

Marie-Laure, with her social grace, audacity, loyalty, social influence, and fortune, managed to create, along with her husband Charles, a sort of French philanthropic philosophy. When Marie- Laure de Noailles, with the support of her husband Charles, decided to build one of the most iconic villas of their century on the heights of Hyères in 1923 and entrusted this highly ambitious project to a then-unknown architect, Robert Mallet-Stevens, it was evident that what primarily drove them at that moment was the idea of transcending boundaries, thinking of modernism without barriers, and fostering creative conviviality. It was also a concrete embodiment of their philanthropic idea by granting complete freedom to creation and a dominant place to artists, firmly believing that life could be reinvented by them and truths could be revealed. The very idea of freedom is at the heart of the Noailles’ thinking, especially in the mind of Marie-Laure. It is an engaged, libertarian, sometimes eccentric, possibly provocative, and above all generous philosophy.

An ode to freedom to celebrate the centenary of Villa Noailles.

Director: Karim Zeriahen
Featuring Anna Mouglalis
Original Soundtrack: Frédéric Sanchez
Illustrations: Francisco Bianchi, Arthur Lecoeur, Adrien Pelletier Post-production : Sheriff projects
Contributors: Jean-Pierre Blanc, Pascale Mussard, Eléa Legangneux, Laurent Lebon, Adel Abdessemed, Olivier Gabet, Sophie Bramly, Paul Audi, François Chaignaud, Vincent Huguet, Pierre Yovanovitch, Emilie Hammen, François-Marie Banier, Cécile Briolle, Mourad Bouayad, Charles de Vilmorin, Théo Desrues
Cinematography: Léo Monnet, Adrien Tabardon
Harp: Théo Desrues

→ Thursday, October 12th, 7:30 PM

CLÉMENT COURGEON
The fool and the broom

This performance features a character: a bee? a jester? He offers viewers a willingly comic and enchanting spectacle. The character’s performance and the look of his costume and accessories introduce us to an aesthetic that can be described as pop-grotesque, halfway between carnival and folk traditions and our contemporary modernity.

→ Friday, October 13th, 4 PM.

Guevrekian Garden
Limited number of spots available

OUALID GUENNOUN
Entre deux mondes

“Entre deux Mondes” is a moment offered to those who have left us.
To all the loved ones I’ve lost, to all the friends who crossed my path, leaving behind them marks, ways of seeing the world, actions that changed my vision of life.
These people, whom you may also have lost, remind us of who we are today.
Like a memory engraved in me, the film of our lives, our bursts of laughter, our adventures, our tears and our anguish.

A melody that reminds me that you’re here, that invites me to remember, to live again, to dance again those moments spent together.

→ Friday, October 13th, 4:30 PM
→ Saturday, October 14th, 11:30 AM

Suspended Garden

NEFELI PAPADIMOULI
Skisncapes

Skisncapes, 2021 est la deuxième performance de la série en cours « cartographies relationnelles » de Nefeli Papadimouli. Cette recherche visuelle se concentre sur l’étude de la diversité des écosystèmes possibles qui surviennent lors de l’étude des corps matériels en tant qu’entités spatiales et spatialisantes et de leur relation avec leur environnement. Les œuvres explorent les méthodes d’organisation et les techniques de visualisation des relations interpersonnelles et intersubjectives.

Dans sa conférence Love and Community, 2001, Jean Luc Nancy déclare l’urgence pour les humains de trouver des moyens “d’être en commun” en l’absence d’être commun comme élément important de l’équilibre social. Skinscapes, inspiré du philosophe des corps, tend à explorer et mettre en question les conflits et tensions qui se présentent naturellement et métaphoriquement lorsqu’un corps individualisé et ses fonctions s’engagent en connexion avec d’autres corps et décident ainsi de faire partie d’un être collectif, une structure sociale formatant une nouvelle créature unique.

Par son activation, l’œuvre examine la manière dont les corps collectifs créent et définissent des configurations spatiales donc sociales et transforment la perception en révélant constamment de nouveaux côtés et points de vue.

Ce travail qui brouille les frontières entre différentes disciplines est conçu pour fonctionner dans deux états différents : État inactif (en grève) État activé (incarné).
En tant qu’objets indépendants et mutés, les œuvres ouvrent un dialogue avec les manières de voir et de représenter les corps dans la peinture traditionnelle et fonctionnent comme éléments de décor.

Dans leur état activé, les œuvres se transforment en surfaces portables, en costumes collectifs, elles deviennent des éléments architecturaux doux, charnus et respirants, interviennent dans l’espace et par un flux cinétique synchronisé et dirigé basé sur des scripts spatiales, elles réinscrivent et reconfigure les agencements spatiaux tout en transformant constamment la façon dont l’architecture et le rythme temporel sont vécus, utilisés et conçus par le public.

→ Sunday October 15th 11.30 a.m

Suspended Garden

ClAIRE LAFFUT ET PIERRE JUAREZ

→ Friday October 12th
As part of the official opening ceremony of the festival Parvis

CARLA GENUS

→ Sunday October 15th
As part of the festival’s awards ceremony Parvis

JACQUES MERLES ET MAX DENIS
Des Lykseries

Des Lykseries is an encounter between multidisciplinary artist Jacques Merle, the creator of Des Jacqueries clothing, and fashion and textile designer Max Denis, the founder of the Lyks brand.

Jacques draws, paints and embroiders ingenuous, rather naked figures, often wearing only a scarf. As for Max, he dresses his muses from head to toe
in rivers of pearls adorned with frills directly inspired by his native island, La Réunion.

Their collaboration gave rise to a complete wardrobe, a fusion of their atypical styles. Des Lykseries reveals a world populated by folklore characters whose shapes stand out on the silhouettes of the garments. A mermaid, a harlequin… These heroines dress and become alive on the surface of the painted, embroidered and stitched textiles, coming to life on the bodies draped in them. In April 2023, Jacques and Max stayed at the villa Noailles for a creative residency. Enveloped by the springtime bustle of the city of Hyères, they fed on their surroundings. The delicate inflorescence of peonies, the precise fold of a cloth drying in the sun or the stars in Saint-Paul Street… These sunny moments become patterns and creative gestures.

→ Friday October 13th & Saturday 14th october from 2.pm to 6.pm
Château Saint-Pierre

HYÈRES,1986. AUX ORIGINES DU FESTIVAL DE LA MODE

As part of the 38th International Fashion Festival, the villa Noailles is delighted to present a selection of previously unseen archives from the first Salon des jeunes créateurs de mode (young fashion designers show). Initiated by Jean-Pierre Blanc, the founder and director of the Festival, this exhibition traces the origins of this unique event, that has been promoting emerging talents in fashion, photography and accessories for almost forty years. The fruit of a recent project to enhance the Festival’s archives, this selection is a prelude to the Festival’s 40th anniversary in 2025.

→ Friday October 13th & Saturday 14th october from 2.pm to 6.pm
Villa Romaine

THE RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DE LA MODE ARE ORGANIZED BY THE FÉDÉRATION DE LA HAUTE COUTURE ET DE LA MODE WITH THE SUPPORT OF LE DEFI.

From predictive to generative AI: innovations and new models.
Round table led by Karine Vergniol
→ 10:30AM

Speakers:

Denis Bonnay,
Associate professor, Paris Nanterre University

Thibault Henriet,
Founder, Awen

Michael Jais,
CEO, Launchmetrics

Pascal Morand,
Executive President, Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode

Samuel N.Bernier,
Leader Design et Innovation, Onepoint

Video clip: Elisha Karmitz, CEO, Mk2

Generative IA: The ethical, social and legal challenges
Round table led by Karine Vergniol
→ 2PM

Speakers:

Matteo Amerio,
Co-founder & CEO, Navee

Laurence Devillers,
Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Sorbonne Université/CRS, member of the Digital Ethics Committee, author of “Les robots émotionnels”
(Eds de L’Observatoire, 2020) (Emotional Robots)

Vincent Fauchoux,
Partner Lawyer, Managing Partner, Cabinet DDG

Eric Peters,
Deputy head of unit in charge of Strategy for the
Digital Decade 2030, European Commission

Which opportunities for creation in the age of generative AI?
Round table led by Karine Vergniol
→ 16h

Speakers:

Eliot Barril,
Head of Data Science, Louis Vuitton

Franc Cheetham,
Creative Lead, Google

Paul Mouginot,
Artist and engineer

Mathilde Matteucci,
Image & Communication Manager, Coperni

Morin Oluwole,
Global Luxury Director, Meta

Pastille vidéo : François Pachet, Director of the Creator Technology Research Lab, Spotify

For accredited festival participants only.

Friday October 13th

→ 5PM, tente pinède, villa Noailles
Charles de Vilmorin, President of the fashion jury and guest of honour

→ 6PM,
Alan Crocetti, tente pinède, villa Noailles
President of the accessories jury and guest of honour

Saturday October 14th

→ 5:30PM, tente pinède, villa Noailles
Luis Alberto Rodriguez, President of the photography jury and guest of honour

Saturday October 14th 3.30p.m Parvis

Dédicaces de livres par les artistes invités :
Alain Camilleri
Luis Alberto Rodriguez
Bilal Hassan
Pierre de Maere
Valentine de Ganay
Christopher Barraja
Rala Choi
Sophie Fontanel
Chiron Duong
Émilie Hammen

DEBEAULIEU
Fleurissement de tous les espaces de la villa Noailles pendant le festival.