Style Notes: The Louvre’s Answer to the Met Gala
Paris Fashion Week’s fall 2025 collections kicked off the day after the 2025 Oscars, spawning plenty of news for anyone experiencing awards-season overload. Fold in the chance to bid on a Marilyn Monroe treasure and an update to a Timothée Chalamet story and we’ve got five style briefs to catch your eye:
Michelle Yeoh, Kiera Knightley and Other Stars Attend “Le Grand D?ner du Louvre”
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Michelle Yeoh must have boarded a plane seconds after the conclusion of the 2025 Oscars, because she looked fresh and rested in Balenciaga when she arrived at the Palais du Louvre on Tuesday evening for “Le Grand D?ner du Louvre,” the first-ever fundraiser for the iconic museum and an event fashion insiders are saying could quickly become known as “the Paris Met Gala.” Not unlike New York’s annual Met Gala, set this year for Monday, May 5, the evening in Paris was designed to celebrate Louvre Couture: Art and Statement — Fashion Pieces, which opened on Jan. 24 and runs through July 21. Unlike the Met Gala, which acts as a preview for its accompanying exhibition, the timing of “Le Grand D?ner” coincides with the kickoff of Paris Fashion Week, almost six weeks after the opening of Louvre Couture. The Louvre’s first fashion exhibition puts a spotlight on the art of haute couture and handcraft, featuring more than 100 fashion and accessory designs from revered French houses that include Chanel, Balmain, Givenchy, Carven, Dior and Balenciaga. Among the stars in attendance Tuesday evening: Keira Knightley in Chanel, Gemma Chan in Jason Wu, Anna Sawai in Dior and Dev Patel in Gucci.
Dior Releasing a Women-Centric Documentary on March 8
Dior creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri has always been women-focused in her work and not only in the feminine looks she has been creating for the house since 2016. Attending a Dior runway presentation is also a chance to view the work of women artists, who Chiuri enlists to create large-scale installations for the house’s runway presentations at the Musée Rodin. Now just in time for Women’s History Month, several of these artists are discussing those collaborations in Her Dior, a 70-minute documentary that goes behind the scenes into both Chiuri’s desire to highlight these women — including artists Judy Chicago, Sharon Eyal and Brigitte Lacombe — and their thoughts on how this exposure to their work has impacted their lives and careers. “When I collaborate with an artist, they are completely free with their project,” Chiuri notes in the film, which is available for viewing on YouTube on Saturday, March 8, International Women’s Day, beginning at noon ET/9 a.m. PT. French director Loic Prigent, whose previous documentaries highlight the work of designers including Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld and Jean Paul Gaultier, also can be heard telling Chiuri in Her Dior, “Without you I’d know zero in feminism. You’re educating me.”
Dame Pat McGrath is the Force Behind Just-Launched La Beauté Louis Vuitton
Swifties already known that Pat McGrath is an icon in her own right, head and shoulders beyond being the woman who perfected Taylor Swift’s classic red lip and who played “the Queen,” the title intentional, in the superstar’s “Bejeweled” video. Now the only makeup artist to ever be named a Dame, by Queen Elizabeth II in 2021, is taking one of her considerable number of collaborations with fashion houses to the next level: Louis Vuitton has named McGrath the creative director, cosmetics for its just-announced makeup collection, La Beauté Louis Vuitton, due to arrive in stores this fall. Vanity cases have long been among the orders for the house’s legendary trunks, and in the 1920s Louis Vuitton added a collection of compacts, brushes and mirrors to its offerings. But this is the brand’s first foray into lipsticks, eye palettes and other cosmetics.
“Working backstage for over 20 years at Louis Vuitton fashion shows, I am thrilled to now play such a key role in the launch of La Beauté Louis Vuitton, which is the result of extraordinary craftsmanship, creativity and innovation,” McGrath said in a statement. “The beauty universe is about so much more than just product and what we are creating here will unlock a new level in luxury beauty.”
Julien’s Auctions Latest Sale Includes a Marilyn Monroe Evening Purse
Fashion fans are already placing bids on the coveted fashion and accessories that make up Julien’s Auctions’ “Bold Luxury: The Limelight Edit,” a wide-ranging sale of vintage (and not-so-vintage) lots that will arrive on the auction block March 27 at 10 a.m. PT at The Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. Gowns, dresses and accessories from labels including Victoria Beckham, Prada, Alberta Ferretti, Chanel and other sought-after brands are mixed in with stage- and screen-worn items, including Cher’s Bob Mackie costume for “If I Could Turn Back Time,” which has already received a high bid of $60,000. Historic pieces include a caftan designed by Irene Sharaff and seen on Elizabeth Taylor in 1963’s Cleopatra; a pair of jeans worn by Marilyn Monroe in 1954’s River of No Return; a Jean Louis dress Monroe wore at a press conference for The Misfits in 1960; and pieces from Taylor’s Louis Vuitton luggage collection.
Among the lots that could be deemed both glamorous and historic is this circa-1950s gold-tone metal minaudière once owned by Monroe and which comes from the personal collection of Dee and Tommy Hilfiger, who are known collectors of art and memorabilia. The minaudière, which carries an auction estimate of $100,000 to $200,000, currently shows a bid of $40,000 and should be one of the most anticipated lots in the sale — not only for the evening purse itself but also for what it still contains from Monroe: a used red lipstick, a powder puff in a special compartment with some powder still intact, two dimes dated 1943 and 1945 and eight cigarettes. A portion of the proceeds from the sale will benefit the non-profit organization NEXT for Autism.
A Gap Suit Timothée Chalamet Wore to an Oscars Event Has Been Reimagined for Sale
The now-famous white GapStudio shirtdress Zac Posen designed for Anne Hathaway, and which sold out in minutes in its consumer version, made this moment inevitable: Gap is now selling a version of the GapStudio look Posen designed for Timothée Chalamet to wear at the Feb. 25 Academy Awards Nominee Dinner in Los Angeles. Posen, the executive vice president and creative director of Gap since February 2024, refashioned Chalamet’s look as a pair of separates designed to be unisex: the GapStudio Satin Icon Jacket sells for $198, while the matching GapStudio ’90s Loose Pants retail for $128. Quantities are limited for the jacket and pants, which are scheduled to ship end of May.
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