A watering-hole throughout the ’80s for the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, Grace Jones, and Yves Saint Laurent, the memory of the club’s debaucherous glamour lives on in Vaccarello, who has been at the creative helm of the Saint Laurent brand since 2016. Lately, the Belgian designer has tapped this nugget of Saint Laurent’s identity to help put an end to ambiance trends like ‘quiet luxury’. Related: Saint Laurent’s SS26 menswear collection is a lesson in what to wear this winterOn Monday night, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower on the Trocadéro, Vaccarello presented his spring/summer 2026 collection to a thrumming electro soundtrack that might’ve once echoed throughout Le Palace. Models walked a track shaped by the house’s YSL logo made of white hydrangeas. (That’s exactly who the Saint Laurent woman was of the late ’70s and early ’80s.)