This event happened last year right around this time, and it is essentially the unofficial opening event of Paris Fashion Week and a fundraiser for the Louvre; a.k.a Paris’s version of the Met Gala, just chicer and more intime. And without costumes. Or a theme. But with a more thrilling backdrop.

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