Battle of Versailles - \'73

Save the Date! October 2025Theme: Haute Couture Disco Extravagance

Source: The Cut - As told to Véronique Hyland | April 2015 Bethann Hardison, the longtime model agent and founder of the Diversity Council, was one of the models in the American portion of 1973’s Battle of Versailles fashion spectacular. More than 40 years later, she recalls that historic night for...

Source: The Cut By Isabel Wilkinson - April 2015 Though by all historical accounts the 1973 Battle of Versailles sounded like a competition of Mighty Duck proportions — with the French designers facing off against the underdog Americans — it was, according to one designer there, not immediately clear that it was an...