{"id":24074,"date":"2025-10-13T18:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/husbands-paris.com\/?p=24074"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:16:33","slug":"les-jeunes-gens-modernes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpadmin.husbands-paris.com\/en\/journal\/les-jeunes-gens-modernes\/","title":{"rendered":"JEUNES GENS MODERNES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“A bit rock, a bit punk, a bit electronic, pretty chic.” Jean-Yves Perrin, Frenchy but Chic, 1980<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 1980, the band the Marquis de Sade poses on the cover of Actuel magazine n\u00b0 4 under the title: “Les jeunes gens modernes love their moms”. The formula remains, and “Les Jeunes Gens Modernes”, which can be translated as modern young people, designates a group of artists of the French post-punk and new wave movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 1978 and 1983, a prolific musical scene developed in France, combining rock energy, punk heritage and electronic experimentation: Marquis de Sade, Elli & Jacno, Marie et les gar\u00e7ons, Electric Callas, Taxi Girl, Artefact, \u00c9tienne Daho.<\/em> In a creative and nocturnal effervescence, musicians, photographers and painters (Bazooka, Pierre & Gilles, Marc Caro…) rub shoulders with journalists and rock critics (Yves Adrien, Alain Pacadis, Jean-\u00c9ric Perrin) giving birth to a new cultural aesthetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-\u00c9ric Perrin’s Frenchy but Chic<\/em> highlights in Rock & Folk<\/em> this snobbish and elegant youth every month. Militant of a modern vision of rock, Frenchy But Chic<\/em> quickly becomes the official organ of the French new wave. Cold, mechanical music and scathing graphics. Chic, punk, arty and retro futuristic attitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spite of a great musical and geographical diversity, these groups have in common a certain disillusionment: their trashy and nihilistic aesthetic is a reaction to the hippie and post-Sixties generation. The Young Moderns synthesize punk’s casualness with the neat appearance of a dandy. Their clothing style is different from punk-rock by a wiser and more colorful silhouette inspired by the early 1960s. The thin black knit tie becomes a leitmotiv as well as the charcoal grey suits with thin lapels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the style to adopt to pass the physiognomists of the Palace or the Bains Douches, able to recognize at a glance a jacket bought at the flea market in St-Ouen or in Montreuil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THREE-BUTTONED COSTUME<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/span>\"1-MARQUIS-DE-SADE.-Actuel-Magazine-no.-4-1980.-\"
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MARQUIS DE SADE. Actuel Magazine no. 4, 1980. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/span>\"2A-Elli-et-Jacno-1981\"
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ELLI. JACNO. Paris, France. 1981. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/span>\"2B-Marie-et-les-garcons-Lyon-1979\"
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MARIE ET LES GARCONS. Lyon, France. 1979. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>\"Marquis
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MARQUIS DE SADE. Rennes, France. 1980. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/span>\"4.A-Elli-et-Jacno-Paris-1980-2\"
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ELLI. JACNO. Paris, France. 1980. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/span>\"4.B-Elli-et-Jacno-Paris-1980\"
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ELLI. JACNO. Paris, France. 1980. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>\"5-Marquis-de-Sade-1978\"
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MARQUIS DE SADE. Rennes, France. 1978. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/span>\"6.A-Elli-et-Jacno-Paris-1980\"
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ELLI. JACNO. Paris, France. 1980. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/span>\"6.B-Philippe-Pascal-chanteur-du-groupe-Marquis-de-Sade-1979\"
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PASCAL, Philippe. Rennes, France. 1979. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n