lionel bensemoun

lionel bensemoun interview and photography by OLIVIER ZAHM le consulat, a roving club open day and night, is energizing the paris social scene as a place for parties, performances, talks, eating, resistance, and raving OLIVIER ZAHM — What’s happened with nightlife lately? I was in Shanghai last week for the anniversary of the last Le Baron club. The others have all closed. Nightlife just isn’t the same at all anymore. LIONEL BENSEMOUN — The world of the night is no longer anything like what we knew from the early 2000s up to 2015. Le Baron opened in 2004 in Paris and lasted until 2016 — 10 solid years of clubbing. It began in Paris, and then Le Barons popped up all over the world: Le Baron Miami Art Basel, Le Baron Cannes, at the film festival in Mexico City, etc. You were there, with the Purple soirées in Paris, and at Le…