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 spectacular fresco ceiling by Marc Chagall. The runway space was the theater’s stage itself; within the audience, a full house of black-and-white cardboard cutouts, each wearing shades and signature Thom Browne, looked on.

“He’s an awesome, singular artist,” said Luhrmann of Browne, musing on what it takes to face out in today’s fashion world. “Take a look at what Pharrell did; for the younger generation, there’s no line between fashion, music, art, popular culture, and we do must ‘eventize,’ to have an enormous idea. It’s now not adequate to only walk up and down and say take a look at the garments, I don’t think. As beautiful as the garments are, that engagement process is tapped out, because we’re living in a special, collective world.”

Cardi B, who had turned into a gilded headpiece and a tweed tailored dress since her dramatic entrance at Schiaparelli Monday morning, admitted she had never been to the opera before. For her, the dramatic staging of the show — beyond the theatrical setting — evoked a story. “It was like a Recent York day, someone who had a very long day, and there are people walking around them, some persons are nice, some persons are pondering an excessive amount of of labor. It just jogs my memory of a Recent York day, with fashion in it,” she mused.

Maisie Williams, who often takes in Thom Browne in Paris, said she found it hard to imagine he had not done couture before. “It feels crazy that that is the primary one,” she said. “I can’t wait to see how far he pushes it, it’s exciting to see what he’s able to doing.”

Williams was profiting from some time without work from work on account of strike motion on the Author’s Guild of America. “The entire industry is at slightly little bit of a standstill, so I’ve been taking the time to see my friends and hand around in London, and it’s been really lovely,” she said. She also enjoyed down time on the recent Glastonbury Festival. “That was amazing, I saw The Arctic Monkeys, I saw Elton John, I saw The Foo Fighters, I saw The Chicks, I saw Romy. Romy was the most effective act for me, I got all of the solution to the front on the barrier and I danced my little heart out for an hour.”