THE FÊTE IMPÉRIALE PRINTS

The Pelican Bay print is the flagship print in the Blue Sand collection. This photographic visual plunges us into the dizzying scenery of Namibia's immense dunes, which seem to flow into the Atlantic Ocean. Putting into perspective the notion of time passing, like an hourglass, and the dimension of future and renewal carried by water, this intense print is totally immersive. Declined on several pieces in the collection, this print is positioned on each piece with the utmost care, using placement techniques derived from haute couture, so as to be presented in the same way on each piece of the same model, thus respecting the creative vision of our artistic director.

Playing on gradations of intense hues, the Tie & Dye print is a tribute to the 70s and the psychedelic movement popularized by the hippie movement. This colorful print comes in two variations: fuchsia, from intense pink to orange hues, and yellow, from sky blue to beige to a more pastel yellow hue. The Tie & Dye print is featured on many pieces in the Blue Sand collection, taking us on a journey through time, a period between revolutionary aspirations and a pacifist vision, imbued with a love of nature.

Resolutely spring-like, the Fleurs print features diffused floral motifs combining acidic hues ranging from green to yellow, pink and orange. Keeping the spirit initiated with the Abstract print in the previous collection, this fresh print features blurred plant illustrations, creating a soft botanical illusion. Deployed on chiffon tops and dresses and on the swimwear collection, this refreshing print is perfectly suited to the season.

The Renaissance print proposes a surreal world, featuring an arid desert landscape, decorated by a few architectural remains and contrasted by water features and aquatic spheres, like oases. Playing on the opposition of sand, embodying the passing of time, and water, representing the future and renewal, this print declines the theme of the collection through an offbeat visual, reminiscent of the SF universe. This print is featured on the two unisex pieces created for the Blue Sand collection: the Laurent Bermuda shorts and the Scandale shirt.

A need for naturalness, a return to our roots... The embodiment of the [INDISTINCT CHATTER] collection, the hypnotic, bewitching Reborn print plunges us into a snow-covered mountain landscape that shimmers in a body of water, offering a poetic reflection and in places revealing vestiges of ancient civilizations. While the silent force of this desert landscape is powerfully felt, we are captivated by the play of light, which focuses on the icy hues of winter, warmed by the soft dews of the rising sun. An ode to freedom from which our eyes can't seem to tear themselves away...

Laura Gauthier Petit, artistic director and founder of Fête Impériale, paid tribute to the abstract works of German artist Gerhard Richter with one of the two flagship prints in the Autumn-Winter 2023 collection: Abstract. Here, botanical forms become blurred, like dreamlike mirages beckoning introspection. This motif, oscillating between a dream of naturalness and plant reality, is repeated on the garment in scattered fashion. Available in a range of shades, from nude to powder pink to icy hues, the Abstract print is at the heart of Fête Impériale's FW23 collection.

For this second spring-summer installment, Laura Gauthier Petit imagined the Corsica print through her photos of vacations on the Isle of Beauty. Key elements include straw-tails, the miraculous virgin, Bonifacio cliffs, shepherd's huts and oleander.

Like a postcard, this print is like a vacation souvenir brought back from the Isle of Beauty, a true tribute to Corsica. Combining emblematic landscapes, a Miraculous Virgin medal and vintage-inspired lettering, this sublime Postcard is a tribute to the Corsican lands, with light sepia tones reinforcing the "heritage" dimension of this inspired creation.

The Corsica collection is a fresco tribute to Corsica,

an island dear to Laura Gauthier Petit, from which her in-laws hail. The first Fall-Winter collection features Immortelles, the island 's endemic flower. Flowers and fruit are blended to create a colorful print on silk, velvet and pleated pieces.

For this collection, imagined against the background of confinement, the designer wanted to create a dreamlike world populated by ostriches and symbols to make room for daydreams and lightness at the heart of the chaos of uncertainties .The Persephone print wasborn from this desire .Inspired by a cabinet of curiosities, this motif combines 19th century colonial imagery , tropical botany and references to Antiquity. The mischievous ostrich named Persephone symbolises the values of lightness and freedom of Fête Impériale.

The Persephone print can be seen on the Asia 100% silk dress or hidden on the satin lining of the Natalia coat. satin lining of the Natalia coat.

The 1920s: bodies are liberated, as are morals... The print riviera evokes the euphoria of the Roaring Twenties, the conquest of freedom, the unforgettable parties in the grand hotels of the Côte d'Azur that resound to the sound of the Charleston. Behind the cypress trees, the rose bushes and the lemon trees is the memory of a delicious joie de vivre that can be savoured under a raffia parasol while enjoying an iced Bellini... To create this Mediterranean print, Laura Gauthier Petit teamed up with the talented 3D illustrator Alexis Christodoulou. 

The Riviera print warms up the entire swimwear line of the 2021 summer collection.

Reminiscences of Laura Gauthier Petit's childhood in la maison in the south of France, her passion for the Italian porcelaine of the 1950s/60s and her memories of travelling in Puglia, Italy. 

The Porcelaine print adorns the silk Chloris dress and the Maia skirt.  

Ultramarine blue, powerful fuchsia, warm ochre... The print Jardin des Jardin des Illustres is an invitation to travel to North Africa, to Marrakech, to the illustrious Majorelle Garden, to the gates of the Atlas, to the Oriental baths. In this flamboyant tribute to the painter Jacques Majorelle, botanists and Art Deco architecture, a statue of a woman by the architect Louis-Ernest Barrias representing nature unveiled to science. 

The Jardin des Illustre print is used on the Alice silk shirt.  

Orsay, another Art Deco inspired print, completes the collection "Jardin des Jardin des Illustres". In a dark celadon, it brings the classical and geometric rigor of its original era.  

Designed by Laura Gauthier Petit in 2017, the Les Nues print is a drawing of intertwined nude bodies. This grey and white version, drawn in pencil and then blurred with an eraser to retain the sketchy look of the design, was created in mirror image with the Les Nus Bleus and Les Géants Bleus prints. 

This print is a second version of the Les Nues print. The original design has been coloured blue to pay homage to the painter Henri Matisse, before being enlarged to 400%, giving the print a textured, even pixelated, appearance and thus echoing the digital era in which Fête Impériale is situated. 

The two versions of the nude body print are a tribute to the iconic painting La Danse by Henri Matisse and a nod to the nude works of the 1950s.  

The result of a collaboration between Laura Gauthier Petit and the artist Marianne Ratier, the Pavots print features an intertwining of women and flowers, thus proposing a new adaptation of the flower woman, usually associated with a passive and objectified image. The print ironically takes the opposite view of the woman as an "object of desire": the poppy flower plays on the bewitching virtues of this outdated ideal. 

Childhood mirage, landscape in a crown of roses mixed with iconic Parisian details, such as Medici vases, an azulejo frame illustrating a cross connection between European aesthetics and the landscape of Reunion Island, where Laura Gauthier Petit is from.  

The print Narcisse is a personal interpretation of the myth of Echo and Narcisse revisited in the digital age where the self plays with its representations and reflections on social networks. 

"We are like magicians creating this perfect image of ourselves. There are two sides to the mirror, in all our realities, it can be quite exciting but also really lonely. 

- Laura Gauthier Petit 

The Appolonie Red pattern is a variation on the original Appolonie pattern, which was first created in green tones. 

The origin of the Les Géants Bleus prints for summer 2020 is the Blue Nudes. The success of this print led the designer to propose a sketched version of the print and a 400% enlarged version three years later. A tribute to Matisse and a reminder of women's liberation and sexuality.  

Created in collaboration with British designer/illustrator Craig Weathley, the Jardin Défendu print was made by a Florentine spinning mill using the Gobelin tapestry technique. In this imaginary world, religious symbols of pictorial works are transformed into irreverent icons. In the foreground, the bamboos become the bars of a cage that prevent access to a jardin défendu.

Inspired by the old English and Parisian libraries, and the atmosphere created by the rows of books, Laura Gauthier Petit has designed a library in the colours of her personal universe, playing with the titles, symbols and design of the covers and edges of the books in the library Fête Impériale. 

Because the very creative identity of artistic director Laura Gauthier Petit is to play with contradictions, she has designed a traditional toile de jouy of ambiguous scenes and thus challenges the bourgeois use of this historical heritage. 

The Venus & Adonis print was created in collaboration with Irish painter Rachelle Cunningham, who was inspired by the eponymous poetic play written in 1592-93 by William Shakespeare as a plague ravaged London. The theme, inspired by Ovid' s Metamorphoses , comes to life in baroque and romantic illustrations created directly on the fabric by the Paris-based artist. 

The Velvet / Sunset print is based on a photograph by Margaux De Fouchier of a contrasting seaside reverie. Like Laura, Margaux sees the artistic object as a painting. In her photographs, the young artist attempts to tame the glow of the skies' light shows in a poetic way; the essence of her approach has been captured in the Velvet/Sunset print. 

Fête Impériale supports associations and causes that are close to its heart by creating committed prints in collaboration with artists. 

Fête Impériale x Info-Endometriosis 

Fête Impériale has created an exclusive collection and unique prints in collaboration with Thomas Lélu, Été 81, Christelle Noel and Johanna Okl, four French artists, to support the awareness-raising efforts of the Info-Endometriosis association.