Nicolas Di Felice’s first collection for Courrèges, “I can feel your heartbeat”, is an ode to youth, looking back at a young André Courrèges and his “workshop era” beginnings when his vocabulary began to take shape. Big volumes, initial explorations of geometric construction and round, pronounced seam allowances. But it’s also a vibrant letter to modern-day youth which can no longer dance.

The fashion show took place at La Station – Gare des Mines in Aubervilliers on the outskirts of Paris. A party and dance spot, hub of Parisian counterculture. A white cube rises from this industrial wasteland, as immaculate and graphic as the first Courrèges salons with a nod to the Belgian clubs near to where Nicolas Di Felice grew up, forever moulding his aesthetic vision. In the finale, groups move towards the cube, drawn by its powerful and festive beats – a piece composed by Sene like a “club edit” from Benelux, birthplace of Dance and New Beat. They climb the white wall to sneak out and join the party.

Discover the collection below.