Coucou Bebe 75018’s Botox Collection SS26

Coucou Bebe 75018’s Botox Collection Confronts Porn, Power, and Paris at Pigalle’s Last Cinema

The Coucou Bebe 75018 Botox collection detonated in Paris. On September 30, 2025, the designer unveiled his debut women’s line for Spring/Summer 2026 inside Pigalle’s last surviving pornographic cinema. The venue, notorious for its 1990s screenings and marginalized audiences, will soon close. The show acted as both a fashion presentation and a cultural farewell.

Instead of sending models down a runway, Coucou Bebe projected raw video works onto the theater’s faded walls. The films featured Zaza, a transvestite filmed during a sexual act in the Bois de Boulogne; Kiki, an OnlyFans influencer; and satirical porn ads staged with humor. All participants consented. The designer used discomfort intentionally, forcing viewers to confront Pigalle’s underbelly, where voyeurism, exploitation, and memory meet.

Pornography as Aesthetic, Memory as Weapon

The Botox collection fused fetishwear, satire, and street style. Industrial hardware, metallic chains, and transparent platform boots anchored the looks. Bomber jackets, sculptural tops, and cropped panels carried slogans such as “Parental Advisory: Explicit Content,” “Breaking the Chains of Poverty,” and “BBL: 100% Natural.”

Coucou Bebe mocked consumer culture through these details and reimagined the female body as both object and site of resistance. Each piece acted as a mirror, reflecting the absurdity and violence of modern image culture.

A Cinema, A Funeral, A Confrontation

Coucou Bebe chose Pigalle’s last porn cinema deliberately. Police once used the site for surveillance, and infamous figures such as serial killer Guy Georges frequented it. By staging fashion in this collapsing space, the designer turned the show into a cultural eulogy.

“This project was never about shock value,” Coucou Bebe said. “It was about forcing the audience to confront a disappearing landscape filled with memory, discomfort, and decay.”

The presentation worked because it refused to polish the past. Botox dragged it into the light and left it raw.

A Collective Work of Defiance

Coucou Bebe 75018 created the Botox collection with collaborators. @neosrealm directed the videos. @darkstarlette, an actress and content creator, brought presence to the films. @pragma.enigma composed an original soundtrack that echoed through the theater like a requiem. @relativ999 shot the lookbook, giving permanence to the night.

Together, they blurred the lines between runway, cinema, and performance. Fashion became confrontation. Paris’s last porn cinema became its unlikely stage.

Botox as Cultural Autopsy

The Coucou Bebe 75018 Botox collection refused comfort. It performed a cultural autopsy, cutting open themes of pornography, censorship, and consumption. By reworking fetish tropes into satire, it challenged how audiences view desire, power, and the female body.

Pigalle’s last porn cinema will soon vanish, but Coucou Bebe 75018 etched memory into fashion. Botox was not just a debut collection. It marked a line in neon: Paris, look again.

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