Who's Next: Snow (Hey Ho!)

The winter 2013 Who's Next fashion and ready-to-wear show was held on the occasion of the Parisian Fashion Week, at Porte de Versailles, just like this summer.
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The Winter version of Who's Next was indoors only, contrary to the Summer version where we were treated with bales of straw... which was +1 for the summer atmosphere but -10 for the slipperiness!
This time, snow was covering the whole city outside, while a strong tropical climat hung heavy inside thanks to the heating and the spotlights. Those same carpeted grounds with conceiled sewer drains underneath would make us trip at random, but hey ho! We knew what to expect!

Paris RollerGirls 2012 Compilation

"New Year" often rhymes with "Previous year" flashbacks and anthologies.

Here is one that comes just at the right moment featuring the Paris RollerGirls, with shots from bouts and demos, public footage on the track, private footage in the changing rooms, a good series of hits and falls, stolen moments... all compiled by Marie Coquand.

Will you find who is where?

Enjoy the show!

Paris Roller Girls_Compil 2012 from Marie Coquand on Vimeo.

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Who's Next: Violent & Funky

Who's Next is a semi-annual show presenting trend forecast collections and up and coming designers. Lasting 4 days, the event is huge and covers 6 halls with women's and men's wear, urban wear, leather, shoes and accessories.

All the stands of clothing brands are displayed in the halls. In order to liven up the atmosphere, some Dj stands are scattered here and there and you can have a drink, a snack or even a full meal if you are ready to pay the price.

The halls are all carpeted in white, in order to "hide the hideous damaged floor". Indeed we quickly realized that underneath, there were various traps to avoid: cracks, holes and sewer drains for the most common ones... And like any white public floor, it didn't survive the first day and turned into a black-spotted carpet.

Rollerdancing in a Pig Sty

Seems that it is the series of music video clip publications! Springtime is inspiring...


Here is the clip of the song "Pig Sty" by the Kid Bombardos, a band from Bordeaux, staging my rollerdance crew in a street basketball court remembering the previous night's party.

I must say that I'm a bit sad not to have taken part in it because they look pretty badass!


You may have recognized some of them from other music clips here and there... but this new one is my favorite by far!

 

Derby Invaders at the Disco

 Remember the OnWheelz disco party of last June?

Well... it went like this!

ONWHEELZ 11JUIN 2011 from rollerjim on Vimeo.

Royal Rolling Roller Disco

And... Here is another Roller-Disco event!

Two in two weekends, never seen that. This time, I really enjoyed it. The place was very small, it was in the shooting studio "Abel 14". It was organized by the Artdicted Group. The theme was 80s and 90s revival. I should have been a go-go dancer for the evening (i.e. being paid to rollerjam, that's all), but I had freestyle demos during the day and couldn't make it on time for the relooking session. Finally it was probably better this way, given the looks of my friends who got the "job"!

Lots of Derby girls showed up too -- including a couple of Swedish, the music was very efficient, there were off-skate go-go dancers who were impressive...

KEWL! Impatiently waiting for the next one!

OnWheelz DiscoRoller

In France, there are no roller-rinks, no roller-discos, no real flat indoor spaces devoted to skating... From time to time some punctual events are organized and we can go clubbing on wheelz! The OnWheelz Discos are organized by my friend Jim (whom I rollerdance with). He used to do three nights per year until last year when the place he used to book became a municipal gym.

Just like every year, there is this big LGBT event called the TIP (Tournois International de Paris) gathering sports teams and associations from all Europe, with animations by all the represented sports.

-- By the way, I had the indescribable chance to find myself on one of the promotion flyers saying "Chloé does sport to fight against discriminations, come and join her!"... Long story.

 

The only LGBT skating association, Les Enrolleres, where I give Slalom-skating lessons, was taking part in this huge event. And along with Jim they decided to organize a new edition of the OnWheelz as part of the Tournament. The biggest difficulty was to manage to get enough people despite the early hours: having become the city's property, the gym had to close at 00 AM... This time, the OnWheelz is going to be a "Before" party.

The originality of this edition was the Roller-Derby Demo at the end!

I was in charge of it, having to take care of several organization stuffs and coordinating the PRG and Jim. I had been named Captain of Team Awesome, and my friend Cherry LieLie was Captain of Team Amazing, so things got quite simple because we easily agree with each other. We found tee-shirts for the two teams on which we drew the numbers of all the girlz. I made a music playlist for the show. We agreed on a little presentation -- which didn't turn that well because it's tough without rehearsal haha.

Other things didn't turn out as expected... little misunderstandings here and there. But it got better after explanations.