Flying Flea / Paris Design Week 2025

Spotlight on the Flying Flea’s exclusive three-day event during Paris Design Week

On 6 and 7 September, at L’École Duperré, during Paris Design Week 2025, Flying Flea, Royal Enfield’s new electric motorcycle brand, presents a series of installations and creative collaborations that bring together emerging talent and established designers. Through sculptures, masterclasses, and workshops, the project examines the interplay between form and function, revealing a disciplined yet inventive approach to contemporary design.

The Paris Design Week is a meeting point of visual languages and diverse practices: a place where experimentation and dialogue between the arts take tangible form. During this period, brands and institutions come together, expanding creative horizons and letting disciplines flow into one another. Fresh perspectives from emerging talents mingle with the vision of established figures, creating a harmony where apparent opposites find their balance.

At the heart of this spirit, inviting bold experimentation, is Flying Flea, Royal Enfield’s new electric motorcycle brand. As in previous years, it appears through a series of collaborations and a program divided into three acts, where music, craftsmanship, design, and installations follow one another in a lively, measured rhythm.

The connection to design and the outreach to a young, creative audience are strengthened through collaboration with L’École Duperré, a Parisian institution nestled in the city’s heart. Its spacious campus becomes fertile ground for innovation and cultural moments.

The initiative is rooted in the very engine of the brand: a core that drives motion and curiosity toward new forms, without ever losing sight of detail. Flying Flea blends heterogeneous elements, showing that form and technique are not separate worlds, but can meet in authentic objects where art and functionality coexist. The program unfolds across a series of events, designed to draw in a varied audience and offer a taste of the brand’s ethos as well as its place in contemporary art.

Among the highlights is a totemic sculpture by Italian artist Mattia Biagi, merging his personal identity and story with the brand’s aesthetic in the Motototem Art Bike project.

The conversation continues with a panel talk featuring Mario Alvisi (Chief Growth Officer, Flying Flea) and Sivakumar S. (Siva), Head of Design for Flying Flea and Royal Enfield. They explore themes of craft and rule-breaking, inviting the audience to step in and participate.

The experience extends to masterclasses, presentations, and installations, offering a glimpse of the school’s students’ work.Contrasts and the meeting of opposites shape the flow of the days: daytime activities give way, in the evening, to a rooftop gathering at the school, transformed into a space for exchange and artistic energy. Here, emerging talents and guests converge, and creative work comes alive in every form.

Rounding out the experience, the soundtrack is provided by DJ Neil (son of DJ Mehdi) and DJ Bonitobay (Ed Banger), underscoring the VIP night with music where design, conversation, and experimentation intertwine. The 6th and 7th of September offer an invitation to full immersion: to discover a brand that has built around itself not just a vision of design, refinement, and technical innovation, but a belief that aesthetics and function move together, nourished by new ideas and unexpected intersections that spark progressive creative growth.

Flying Flea / Paris Design Week 2025

Credits

Brand: Flying Flea / @flyingflea
Artist: Mattia Biagi / @mattiabiagi1
Venue : École Duperré / @ecoleduperreparis
Words: Annalisa Fabbrucci / @annalisa_fabbrucci

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