Party naked. Because why not?

Article originally published on February 6, 2022.

To get to this evening (where the plan is to pay 13 euros to dance naked), you have to cross the Forum des Halles. The party starts at 11:55 p.m. At this late hour, we come across friends chatting before going dancing all night long, couples coming out of a dinner party, boys sitting in a small fast-food restaurant eating fried chicken from their fingers. What would these people think if they knew that for six hours, very close to them, right in the center of Paris, in a well-heated nightclub (the club), 500 people getting ready to dance without any clothes on? Would they think it was a joke? It is not. The evening is called “Beautiful Skin” and here is the promise: “Nudist clubbing full of joy and love. »

I have an appointment at 11 p.m. with the organizers of the evening to interview them before this sweet madness begins. It is therefore 10:30 p.m. when I leave my apartment in the direction of the Klub. I set off with a little apprehension, because I agreed to be naked too. And as much as stripping myself in nature doesn’t bother me, doing it in a closed place in Paris, in the middle of a crowd of completely unknown people, questions me. “It’s a plus if you’re naked”, Jérémie Lapeyre, one of the organizers, explained to me when we called each other. An elegant way of telling me: “Get naked like everyone else and don’t piss off.”