“Fashion is a team sport,” Mark Guiducci, ’s creative editorial director, told Chloe and Chioma this morning in the Paris offices. And it was a sentiment that couldn’t have felt truer at 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, ’s hosts spoke not only to Mark, but also Vogue World’s stylists: Carine Roitfeld, editor-in-chief of , and Ib Kamara, creative director of Off-White and editor-in-chief of . 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 team tirelessly churned out stories. Indeed, working at 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 s.
