The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris announced that it would host a special ball next year in celebration of the centennial for the 1925 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts.
They’ve revealed that Sofia Coppola will serve as artistic director for the event, which is set to happen during Paris Couture week on July 6. Jean-Victor Meyers, businessman and member of the Bettencourt family which owns L’Oreal, will act as the President of the Honorary Committee for the gala.
While raising funds for the museum is the event’s central cause, it is also about reviving the old-world glamour of the historic Parisian grand balls that celebrated fashion, art, and culture within singular spaces. There is no better venue for this kind of merging of worlds than the Musée, which has always exhibited a breadth of art and design, from Jeanne Lanvin’s private apartment decorated by Armand-Albert Rateau and Christofle silver to the archives of Dries Van Noten and Dior.
