Performance

Following the runway finale of the Villa Eugenie-produced Dries Van Noten show, the models leisurely sat down on the more than 300-foot-long runway carpet in the form of hipster nymphs, allowing show attendees the opportunity to get a close-up look at the garments.

Held at a skate park on the northern outskirts of Paris near the Périphérique (the border separating Paris proper and the outlying suburbs), the Villa Eugenie-produced Kenzo show featured a female avatar on large digital screens greeting arriving guests with messages of environmental protection (last spring's show highlighted the preservation of the world's oceans). Models were strategically placed on the park's concrete curvatures.

After last season's supermarket blitz, Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel show returned to the Grand Palais, this time with attendees entering into a streetscape "Boulevard Chanel" to celebrate female—and fashion—power. For the  September 30 event, Villa Eugenie built a 427-foot-long runway, flanked by façades soaring some 82 feet into the air that mimicked life-size Haussmannian buildings. Scaffolding across one façade supported the runway lights while "standing room" guests were kept behind faux metal police barricades.

At the 2010 National Opera Ball, the winter theme continued into the courtyard, which featured fake snow falling from the rooftop and was designed as a tribute to the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Entertainers circled the snow-filled courtyard in inflated Zorbs.