July 2023

ON STAGE: Guests including Cardi B, Diane Keaton, Karina from K-pop girl band Aespa, Ayo Edebiri, Maisie Williams and Lee Pace all faced a steep climb up the steps from the rear entrance of the Palais Garnier to achieve the setting for Thom Browne’s debut couture showing Monday afternoon. “I’m imagining something goes to occur to that curtain,” said Baz Luhrmann, who knows greater than a thing or two about theaters. He even got married on the Sydney Opera House, he reminisced fondly. He was right: after guests settled into their seats for the show, the curtains parted, accompanied by a sea of gasps from the audience, to disclose the gilded interior of the opera house with its red velvet seats and...