“Fashion is a team sport,” Mark Guiducci, Vogue’s creative editorial director, told Chloe and Chioma this morning in the Vogue Paris offices. And it was a sentiment that couldn’t have felt truer at Vogue World: Paris last night. For its third iteration, Vogue World traveled this year to the iconic Place Vendôme in the 1st arrondissement, where there were runway walks, musical entertainments, athletic demonstrations, dancing, and more—the best of fashion and culture rolled into one spectacular evening.
To recap the event and explain all the looks, The Run-Through’s hosts spoke not only to Mark, but also Vogue World’s stylists: Carine Roitfeld, editor-in-chief of CR Fashion Book, and Ib Kamara, creative director of Off-White and editor-in-chief of Dazed. The vision for the event was to pair a sport—think cycling, tennis, horseback riding, and others—with a decade in French fashion, and Carine and Ib worked closely with fashion historian Alexandre Samson to survey styles from across the last century. (Adding the perfect finishing touch to each look, meanwhile, was beauty queen Dame Pat McGrath, who did the makeup.)
Everyone on today’s episode had a different experience of the night: while Chioma sat among the guests, Chloe was tucked away in a windowless room where she and the Vogue team tirelessly churned out stories. Indeed, working at Vogue isn’t all glamour and heels and fashion. More often than not, it’s all hands on deck—whether that means writing web posts, running a pair of shoes across the Place Vendôme, or lacing someone into a corset (as Mark had to do). Despite their disparate set-ups, however, the group were all in agreement that one of the highlights of the evening was the red, white, and blue, French flag-inspired dress worn by retired French sprinter Marie-José Pérec, who closed out the show.
And the fashion was only one part of the maximalist evening; Vogue World: Paris also became a bonafide concert, with performances from Aya Nakamura and Bad Bunny. (Yes, you heard that right.) And, as was to be expected, it was a star-studded night both in the audience and on the runway itself. Dressed in Hermès, notable horse girls Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner rode across the Place on horses brought down from Normandy; and there were additional appearances from FKA Twigs, Maluma, Sabrina Carpenter, Serena and Venus Williams, Teyana Taylor, Ciara, and Katy Perry. In an elaborate Jean Paul Gaultier by Simone Rocha look featuring a conical bra, Cara Delevigne hosted the livestream, which is a must-watch. But there’s little time to rest now that Vogue World is over—couture, here we come!