The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” (Twitter), presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 8 p.m. news on France 2, recounts an unprecedented moment in the life of a personality, behind the scenes of an event or a place belonging to collective history. Reports that reveal the small story in the big one, to leaf through like a family album. This new issue of season 4 of “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” talks about freedom, that of Françoise Sagan in corseted France in the 1950s, or that of… the miniskirt!
The day when > Françoise Sagan acquired a taste for freedom
In March 1954, a well-mannered 18-year-old made headlines with her book Hello Sadness. Her name is Françoise Sagan. Scandal in the bourgeois and corseted France of René Coty with this book which exposes the hidden desires of a young teenager. Françoise Sagan will try to make her life a party, where excess and speed are never far away. But where does this taste for freedom rooted in the body and this rejection of conventions come from? “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” tells how the very young writer got a taste for freedom…
And also, combat clothing, artists and freedom…
News > The miniskirt revolution
Conquering one’s freedom, under the nose and beard of conventions, is a definition that could fit like a glove to a miniskirt, a garment that is much less innocuous than it seems. When the Londoner Mary Quant invents this piece of fabric that allows women to run to catch the bus, it is not only a question of practicality. Clothing has a political character, a way for women in the 1960s to claim the right to control their bodies. And today ? Has the fight changed and how? A look back at the miniskirt revolution, a reflection of a changing society.
Bonus > “What is freedom?”
From Simone de Beauvoir to Jacques Brel, artists and writers talk about it best…
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– I deny nothingby Françoise Sagan (ed. Stock).
– Hello Sadnessby Françoise Sagan (ed. Julliard).
– Behind the shoulderby Françoise Sagan (ed. Stock).
– Write to me fast and longby Francoise Sagan (ed. Stock).
– What the skirt lifts. Identities, transgressions, resistances, by Christine Bard (ed. Otherwise).
– Mary Quantby Jenny Lister (ed. Victoria & Albert Museum).
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