Let Them Eat Cake

Vogue World rolled into Paris last night. To Vogue fans' great disappointment, it was not for them.

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Last night, Vogue World unfurled in the Place Vendôme in Paris.

What is Vogue World, you ask?

“It’s historic,” said Amandine Fourcaud, a 21-year-old fashion business student from Bordeaux, on the sidewalk behind venue. She was perched on a streetlamp base, trying to peer over the walls to see backstage.

“It’s too expensive,” said Adèle Vanhoenackere, a 17-year-old French high school student from the Paris suburbs, who was among the fans at the entrance.

“It’s for celebrities,” said Marina Arsenii, a 17-year-old French-Ukrainian model from Paris, who was there with her friend, 19-year-old Ukrainian refugee Sophia Yudaieva. “I thought we’d see more.”

“I don’t know what it is,” said Brianna Roberson, a 21-year-old fashion student at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who was in Paris on holiday with her mother, Gigi Roberson.

“Do you?”

Sort of.