The scene is happening in a context of growing social frivolity and aims to testify, through a mixture of fervent realism and a touch of imagination, what could be a paradoxical new normal. The artist proposes a nocturnal scene of the twenty-first century Paris in which the underground mutates and adapts to needs that have become essential.
Champagne thus becomes a symbol of gluttony and greed in a society increasingly driven by luxurious hypocrisy and the firms that embody it. Luxury maisons start to insinuate themselves into every environment in order to satisfy a desire that cannot be quenched, even reaching unusual places. The broken glass is therefore the element that brings us back to a real situation of the gloomy and lowly environment of a metro station. The nauseating mixture of high society and mass class elements is thus emphasized by this feature, which symbolizes the tension between the two worlds.