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Discover These Amazing Artists At The Winter 2025 Shows 
Ready to get inspired? At each edition of Playtime Paris and Playtime & Kid’s Hub New York, amazing artists are invited to exhibit their work. In addition to the selection of kids’ fashion and lifestyle brands, it’s important for us to add this extra layer of beauty. By having the work of these artists on display, there will be inspiration around every corner at The Big Small Shows. Breathing life into the trend spaces, adding haunting beauty to the VIP Buyer & Press Lounge, and making the space to chill a feast for your body and spirit, the work of these artists will amaze and inspire you.
We can’t wait to discover the work of these amazing artists, and are sure you can’t either! Let us introduce you to each of them and give you a glimpse at their work before you see it for yourself January 25-27.
Samia Hilal is a set designer and artist. She received her bachelor’s degree in object design in 2021 and her master’s in Interior Architecture in 2023. These studies have given her a dual skillset that allows her to assert that she is, above all, a creator. Her work finds its unique identity in a joyful and colorful universe.
She bases her reflections and research around the work of textiles and their place in modern interiors. She creates objects and spaces that are like poetry. Each work invites the viewer on a journey, a moment of escape reminiscent of childhood. Tufting is the technique that she mainly uses in her work. It allows her to explore different formats, materials, and functions.
Discover Samia’s work in the Sumptuous trend space in Paris and New York.
Having completed her studies at l’École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués Duperré and l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Camille Longuépée currently lives in Paris. Her studies were followed by a number of rich experiences. Ranging from being a costume designer for cinema to the creator of a knitwear line and even a baker, 3 years ago she returned to her first instincts of pure creation.
Her research has been focused on intense hidden emotions, giving them life through different medias. Her work is like a sensitive dialogue between concrete forms and an emotional flow. This has driven her to pay close attention to shadows, like the dark emotions hidden deep inside each of us. She gives form to the things our subconscious generally avoids looking at.
She gradually began to tame them, constantly exploring new materials, new ways to give them consistency, shape, light, and color. Drawing, painting, sculpting wood, plaster, or clay, using textiles as well as objects gathered during her wanderings, all are her tools for exploring these emotions. These concrete elements of the exterior world express the infinite inner world, like a secret channel towards a birth of the unconscious.
Explore powerful emotions with Camille’s work in the Kinship trend space in Paris and New York.
“The imaginary is not the opposite of reality. It is a reality in its own right.” This quote from medieval historian Jacques LeGoff perfectly summarizes the work of visual artist Elsa Dray-Farges. A graduate of ENSAAMA and the Rietveld Academie d’Amsterdam, she has been developing her colorful, melancholic work for about ten years. She has alternated between sculpture and drawing in her studio in Montreuil.
Elsa explores the porous boundaries between reality, dreams, and nightmares, creating fantastic iconography. Her images are haunted by hybrid creatures, a grotesque and dreamlike bestiary that evolves in worlds of shimmering colors that are disturbing and strange.
Juggling between commissions (Hermés, Wouters & Hendrix, Bonpoint…) and personal projects, her work combines diverse inspirations like carnival folklore, Tex Avery cartoons, and the paintings of Jérôme Bosch.
This amazing artist’s work will be on display in the Press & VIP Lounge in Paris.
Having graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2019, Margaux Lelièvre now lives and works in Île-de-France. She creates installations in which she assembles found materials with forms she has modified or shaped. Exploring the familiar, she sculpts the ordinary, reverses and manipulates it. She disassembles and assembles it a bit like the pieces of a game, producing minimal gaps that play with our perception and invite us to pay new attention to things.
Find her work in the space to chill at Playtime Paris!
We can’t wait to discover the work of these amazing artists soon in Paris and New York! Their artwork helps give the shows life, making them even more inspiring for both visitors and exhibitors. Helping to bring ethereal trends to life, stage a calming atmosphere, and stimulate the senses, we thank these artists for their participation.
The shows will also feature the incredible scenography of our Artistic Director Laetitia and Show Designer Amélie. Immersed in their designs throughout the shows, you’ll be inspired as you explore the aisles of hundreds of international brands.
Get your pass to join us in Paris January 25-27 and New York February 9-11!
