Financed by the designer, this Venetian fashion ball launched the legend of the Palace, the Parisian club opened the same year by Fabrice Emaer. 18th century costumese century under the mirror ball for Andy Warhol, Paloma Picasso and Rudolf Nureyev.
« It’s one of the first fashion festivals and it was Karl Lagerfeld who financed everything, recalls journalist Marie Ottavi, author of the biography Karl, a history of fashion (Editions Robert Laffont). The Palace myth was born that evening. The following days, we will talk about this 24 October 1978 and this Mecca of Parisian nightlife around the world. » The designer invited stars from all walks of life, socialites and all the “wannabes” of the decade to celebrate on the theme of the 18th century Venetian ball.e century, in the nightclub that opened a few months earlier and that everyone is talking about. Eva Ionesco, at the time, was not 15 years old, but still remembers« a phenomenal party, undoubtedly the most beautiful of all », which even rivals the epic nights of the iconic Studio 54, motley haunt of« gays, elite, jet-set and underground artists ».*
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