Chiara Mastroianni, Laetitia Casta, Virginie Efira but also Keira Knightley or the couple David and Victoria Beckham … The stars were rushing, Tuesday, March 4, for the big Louvre dinner in the courtyard Marly, transformed into a grandiose banquet room deployed on three levels. Vuitton, Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Balenciaga, the largest luxury houses had responded to the call of this unprecedented event, organized at the opening of Paris Fashion Week and on the sidelines of the successful exhibition “Louvre Couture”, which, since January 24, has been dialing for the first time fashion and precious objects in the Department of Decorative Arts of the Museum.
Sponsors, in gala outfit (“Black Tie”, ” black tie “, specified the invitation), also deployed from table to table, in particular that of the evening (and from exhibition to honor), infinite visa, credited on the menu and whose logo was displayed under the pyramid where The afterparty. The management of the museum had been supervised for months for the smallest details of these feasts: list of dishes established by the triple starry chief Anne-Sophie Pic, neither too rich nor too chick, with the first asparagus of the season; On the decor side, tables decorated with the flowers of the moment, buttercups, pavots and anemones, chosen by the florist Stéphane Chapelle.
The Louvre is used to prestigious raouts. That organized in June 2024 with the complicity of Bulgari, on the sidelines of the exhibition of the Torlonia collection of Roman ancient sculptures, had left the guests amazed. Welcomed by harpists, the Happy Few, among whom people of fashion and aristocrats mingled, had tasted the dishes of chef Yannick Alléno. The following month, it was a meal under close surveillance concocted by Alain Ducasse held under the glass pyramid of Ieoh Ming Pei, bringing together heads of state and crowned heads on the eve of the opening of the Olympic Games.
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