Overview
- The 2025 edition was held on November 29 at the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris, continuing the event relaunched in 1997 by Ophélie Renouard.
- Harvard sophomore Bronwyn Golden Vance wore a Stéphane Rolland haute couture gown, telling HELLO! the dress "makes me feel like a Disney princess."
- Angela Bassett praised her daughter’s "spirit of graciousness," and Bronwyn said she asked her twin brother, Slater, to serve as her cavalier.
- Albert Windsor, 18, the Duke of Kent’s grandson, made a rare public appearance as he escorted Eulalia de Orleans-Borbón.
- This year’s roster mixed aristocratic names and prominent families in fashion and business, with Le Bal highlighting its partner charities ARCFA and Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital.