Galerie Daniel Templon enters the diaries as the setting for Andy Warhol’s Hammer & Sickle opening in Paris in June 1977. The scene brings together punks and fashion-world figures, then turns disorderly: a fight breaks out, a tooth is knocked out, and Warhol retreats into the office as the punks shout his name. The gallery is thus recorded not through architectural description but as a site where art, celebrity, fashion, and unruly spectators briefly collide.

Setting and Opening

The opening followed a day moving through Paris’s fashion world. Princess Grace and Caroline of Monaco rushed out of Ungaro Couture when they heard that Warhol’s party was next door at Ungaro Homme; Bob Colacello bought a suit, and the group then went to Rue Beaubourg for the opening at Galerie Daniel Templon. That sequence places the gallery within a day of couture appointments and high-profile encounters, while marking a shift from fashion’s controlled rooms to the more unsettled gathering around Warhol’s work.

Guests and Disruption

The opening drew “all the same punks,” alongside São Schlumberger, who arrived in a blue Givenchy outfit on her way to a dinner in Versailles. The contrast is concrete: punk attendees shared the occasion with a figure in couture, and the opening’s social mix did not remain ceremonially composed. Some punks fought, one lost a tooth, and they began shouting Warhol’s name loudly enough that he was locked into the office. As the party was breaking up, a drunk man kissed him on the lips, another abrupt intrusion in the evening’s departure.

A Meeting Point for Different Scenes

The account presents Galerie Daniel Templon through this convergence rather than through details of its rooms or its wider exhibition history. Its opening brought Warhol’s art into contact with a crowd that included both punk regulars and fashion-world company. That mixture resonates with the wider role of Interview, which had become a glamorous source of new faces and a way for Warhol to keep meeting young people; at the gallery, however, the crowd’s attention takes a rougher form, turning his name into a shouted presence amid a fight and a hurried retreat.