CHAMPAGNE FOR ALL: A glamorous crowd gathered at Caviar Kaspia to toast couturier Alexis Mabille following his present on the Lido 2 Paris cabaret on the Avenue des Champs-Elysées throughout Paris Couture Week.
The visitor of honor was Dita Von Teese, who shocked visitors by closing the runway present together with her iconic Champagne glass striptease on the venue’s hydraulic stage, full with a working fountain.
It was her first time again on the Lido because it was acquired by Accor Group and reopened final yr as a musical theater, with a brand new inside design by Mabille, minus the topless dancers that made it world well-known.
“I used to be a giant fan of the previous Lido present and so it was actually neat to see the room, and I used to be very excited to know that the fountains have been nonetheless there. And I received to splash like I by no means splashed earlier than, as a result of there it’s all water anyway. So yeah, it was enjoyable,” mentioned Von Teese, wearing a pale pink corset high with frothy netting sleeves and slim black pants.
It was the primary time she carried out the act within the French capital since bringing her “Glamonatrix” tour to the Théâtre des Folies Bergère in 2021. Whereas on the town, Von Teese deliberate to take a look at Violet Chachki’s visitor residence on the Loopy Horse.
Chachki is making historical past as the primary drag performer to grace the legendary cabaret’s stage. Von Teese recalled that she was the primary ever visitor performer on the Loopy Horse again in 2006, happening to do 4 residencies on the venue.
“It wasn’t really easy the primary time, I’ll inform you. That is form of earlier than it was modern. It was somewhat little bit of a relic and loads of, identical to, males vacationers. And doing the rehearsals, I really feel like the ladies have been form of like, ‘What’s this lady doing right here?’ You realize, they didn’t look very pleased about it,” she mentioned.
On opening night time, designers and celebrities descended on the cabaret to catch Von Teese’s act.
“It breathed new life into it and so they all got here as much as me to thank me afterwards the place, an hour earlier than, they have been like, ‘This bitch, doing a present.’ It was very a lot a tricky factor as a result of you realize, they do the reveals twelve months a yr, they don’t take Christmas off,” she continued. “Anyway, it was the beginning of a beautiful relationship.”
Von Teese just lately accomplished an eight-month residency on the Jubilee Theater at Horseshoe Las Vegas. “Now I’m making an attempt to determine what I wish to do subsequent,” she mentioned, including that she’s mulling one other stint in Sin Metropolis subsequent yr.
Henri Sillam, Stefanie Powers and Alexis Mabille.
François Goizé
On Tuesday night, it was time to take pleasure in some actual Champagne bubbles for visitors together with photographers Ali Mahdavi and Ellen Von Unwerth; Broadway producer Jordan Roth; inventive director Fredrik Robertsson; mannequin Emma Wiklund, a.ok.a. Emma S of “Too Funky” video fame; socialite Suzanne Saperstein; filmmaker Vanessa Filho and singer, actor and artist Simon Buret.
Stefanie Powers, the actress finest identified for her function as Jennifer Hart within the TV sequence “Hart to Hart,” got here straight from the Giorgio Armani Privé present, accompanied by jeweler Henri Sillam, a longtime pal.
She deliberate to additionally attend the Elie Saab and Patou reveals whereas in Paris, however is concentrated primarily on her work with the William Holden Wildlife Schooling Heart in Kenya, particularly regenerative agriculture.
“We’ve misplaced the power for the local weather to get well its fantastic job of exchanging carbon for oxygen. It’s a really harmful cliff edge that we’re performing on,” she warned.
“So if we work in conservation, we have now to all the time complement with some form of regeneration of habitat. If there’s no place for the animals to dwell in, what are we doing?” she continued. “They’re the sketch for what’s going to occur to us, so we have to be taught.”
After dinner, illustrator David Downton corraled Von Teese and Powers for a memento photograph on the restaurant’s spiral staircase. “Legends solely,” he captioned his photographs on Instagram.