On Sunday, June 23, guests will descend on the Place Vendome—the location of the Ritz Paris—for Vogue World: Paris. (The rest of us will be catching the at 9 p.m.
CET (3 p.m. EST)—with the pre-show starting at 8:30 p.
m. CET (2:30 p.m.
EST)—on Vogue.com.) While we can’t yet reveal what this year’s Vogue World Paris has up its couture-crafted sleeve, we eminisce on the rich history of its location.
A place of historical and fashionable significance, the Place Vendôme was commissioned by Louis XIV and reclaimed by Napoleon I, who keeps watch at the top of the Colonne Vendôme; this is the very square over which Gabrielle Chanel’s Ritz Paris apartment looked and where Elsa Schiaparelli set up shop in 1935. It is hallowed fashion ground—and Vogue World: Paris marks its first-ever runway show. That said, the Place Vendome and the Ritz Paris, specifically, have been the locations of choice for many a moment.
There’s model Audrey Marnay photographed by Arthur Elgort for ’s March 1999 issue in the famed Suite. Another Elgort contribution from ’s October 2009 issue features a swan-like Karlie Kloss in Christian Dior. Much farther back in our archive, we have a whimsical scene captured by illustrious illustrator Carl Oscar August Ericsson from our July 1931 issue, which captures the lively scene in a Ritz dining room.
And who could forget the multi-page homage from Tim Walker, starring Kate Moss? In our April 2012 issue, before the Ritz Paris shut its doors for .
