Galeries Lafayette celebrates new perspectives

The SAVOIR FAIRE SAVOIR Programme

Initiated by the Galeries Lafayette group through the Bourse des regards, the SAVOIR FAIRE SAVOIR programme reflects a commitment to promoting heritage and supporting contemporary creation. It aims to create a dialogue between the department store’s heritage and modern creation.

Each year, the programme brings together two generations of creators:

• An emerging talent selected via a call for projects, who benefits from a one-year research residency within the historical archives (130 years of creation) to develop an original project.
• Two established fashion and design artists, each invited to design a statement object enriching perspectives around the applied arts.

Each original creation explores one of three key pillars: Technique & Savoir-faire, Look & Inspiration, or Function & Reinterpretation. All pieces join the brand’s historical collection for long-term preservation.

Their creations will be presented and sold in limited editions at Lafayette Maison & Gourmet (€50-€550).

Artists & Creations for the 2026 Edition

Call for Projects Winners (Applied Arts): Les Moires

Founded by Camille Gasser and Camille Mouchet, Les Moires is a textile design collective centering its approach on honoring heritage and reinterpreting traditional techniques.
The duo’s project MEUBLE-À-PORTER merges fashion and furniture to reinvent our connection with body and space. Drawing from Galeries Lafayette’s archives, the creators transform the historical store counter into a mobile, intimate object that can be worn.

Guest Artist (Fashion): Stéphanie D’heygere

A graduate of Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Belgian designer Stéphanie D’heygere puts humor, conceptualism, and private poetry at the core of her vision by “accessorizing accessories” and subverting everyday objects.
Her project The Brush Clutch is a striking creation where reinterpreting Galeries Lafayette’s commercial archive gives rise to private poetry.

Guest Artists (Design): Döppel Studio

Founded in 2016 by Lionel Dinis-Salazar and Jonathan Omar, Döppel Studio is a Parisian design agency exploring the duality between function and fiction, rigor and sensitivity, through a totemic aesthetic and deep material research.
The Reflets project repurposes the porcelain service into an interior accessory: moving from table to wall, from service to image, where outdated ornamentation becomes a contemporary play.

Other partnerships at the heart of the creative landscape

A Collaboration with the French Fashion Institute (IFM)

Longtime partner of the French Fashion Institute (IFM), Galeries Lafayette also supports the IFM Foundation and its equal-opportunity scholarship programmes. Today, they reaffirm their commitment to emerging talent through an exhibition of silhouettes created by the Class of 2026.

Presented at the opening of Paris Fashion Week®, these six silhouettes were selected to showcase the creative breadth of IFM graduates. The combined pieces offer a glimpse of a generation of designers for whom fashion is at once a language, a commitment and a space for invention.

The Yishu 8 Exhibition: An Ode to Creativity

As part of Paris Design Week, artist residency Yishu8 and Galeries Lafayette present Chinese artist Hui Hui and her original installation. Entitled ‘Lightness Garden,’ this monumental work celebrates creativity and the meticulous attention paid to material and craftsmanship. Evoking the fluidity of water and the suppleness of plant life, her textile creations occupy the space between modern art, fashion and design.

Located on the 2nd Floor of Lafayette Maison & Gourmet
From 6 to 21 September 2026

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📍 Galeries Lafayette Maison & Gourmet, 2nd floor
35 Boulevard Haussmann, 75009 PARIS