Qui êtes-vous, Pizzicato Five?

Pizzicato Five was a Japanese band that originated in the 80s. The group soon gained worldwide popularity and helped to spread the shibuy-kei genre of Japanese pop – a mixture of jazz, pop and electropop- all over the world. They have created a vast amount of albums and singles and are greatly influenced by the 60s pop culture, music and fashion, which is evident in their music as well as image. After a number of changes in their original composure, the final synthesis of the group consisted of Nomiya Maki and Konishi Yasuharu. Their last album was entitled “Çà et là du Japon” and it was released in 2001, the year the group split up.

Qui êtes-vous, Lupin the Third?

Kazuhiko Kato, known under the nickname Monkey Punch, is the creator of the popular Japanese cult manga and anime "Lupin the Third". The stories of Lupin the Third evolve around the adventures of Arsene Lupin III, a young, sharply dressed thief and leader of a notorious gang of criminals. The manga originated in the 60s and soon the anime followed. Since then Lupin the Third has achieved worldwide acknowledgement.

Qui êtes-vous, Lalo Schifrin

The 1966 album entitled “The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music From the Past as Performed By the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory of the Marquis De Sade” constitutes a successful music experiment performed by Lalo Schifrin. The Argentinian composer and conductor did not hesitate to combine jazz with 18th century classical themes and managed so exceptionally. Renown also for his film scores (“Dirty Harry”, “Cool Hand Luke”, “Bullitt”, “Mission Impossible”) Lalo Schifrin has worked with Havier Cugar’s orchestra and never seized to search for ways to creatively mingle classical music with jazz.

Qui êtes-vous, Teddy Girls?

In 1955 director Ken Russell captures a bunch of Teddy Girls from the suburbs of London using his photo camera. Those women, the female equivalent of the Teddy Boys, acquired a daring sense of neo Edwardian, androgynous style and attitude. Usually of a working class background, they rejected post-war austerity and constituted the first British female tribe.

Qui êtes-vous, Harold Lloyd?

Harold Clayton Lloyd was an American film comedian popular from his silent films in the beginning of the 20th century. Lloyd appears in one of the most iconic images in cinema history hanging from the hands of a clock above a highway in the movie “Safety Last!”. He portrayed various characters, like Lonesome Luke and the Glasses character, or the Boy, during his prolific cinematic career and he is considered one of the best silent film actors of all time.

Qui êtes-vous, Kiki de Montparnasse?

Kiki de Montparnasse was the pseudonym of Alice Ernestine Prin, an artist model, actress, nightclub singer and painter from France. Raised by her impoverished grandmother she started posing nude for artists in the 1920s and soon became a popular artist model in the Montparnasse social scene known with the nickname “Kiki”. She posed for Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, Arno Breker, Alexander Calder, Per Krohg, Mouse Kisling, among others, and was the companion of Man Ray. She also appeared in quite a few experimental short films like Fernand Léger's “Ballet Mécanique”. A symbol and muse for the art société of Montparnasse in the beginning of the 20th century she is indicated as one of the first truly independent women by her biographers.

Qui êtes-vous, Baron Rogers of Riverside?

Richard George Rogers is a British architect also known under the title of nobility "Baron Rogers of Riverside". Among his most famous works are the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome in London and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. He is renowned for his modernist, futuristic and functionalist architectural designs and has been awarded with the RIBA Stirling Prize, the RIBA Gold Medal, the Minerva Medal and Pritzker Prize among others.