Your questions, answered

Everything one wonders before a door opens: how to get in, what to wear, what it costs, when to book. Verified at the source.

Access

• How to attend Art Basel Paris
  Public and Premium tickets for the October 21 to 25, 2026 edition at the Grand Palais are on sale at artbasel.com: publi
• How to attend Paris Fashion Week
  Shows on the official calendar are not open to the public: each house invites by name, with the Fédération de la Haute C
• How to attend the Venice Film Festival
  The general public buys screening tickets on labiennale.org, for daytime and evening screenings alike. For the 2 to 12 S
• How to get into Les Caves du Roy in Saint-Tropez
  By booking a table or a bottle directly: on lescavesduroy.com, by email at saint-tropez@byblos.com, or by phone at +33 (
• How to get on board a yacht in Monaco
  The route open to everyone is the Monaco Yacht Show, September 23 to 26, 2026 at Port Hercule: passes are sold exclusive
• How to get invited to a fashion show
  Two paths exist: free press accreditation from the FHCM (accreditation@fhcm.paris) followed by a request to the press of
• How to book a table at Hôtel Costes
  Directly with the house: through its website, by phone at +33 1 42 44 50 00 or by email at contact@hotelcostes.com (7 ru
• How to visit the Maisons of Place Vendôme
  The Maisons of Place Vendôme open their doors during LVMH's Les Journées Particulières, October 16 to 18, 2026: Chaumet
• How to attend the Monaco Grand Prix
  Tickets are sold only through the official ticket office of the Automobile Club de Monaco, monaco-grandprix.com, or at i
• Can you attend the Cannes Film Festival
  Not freely: the Festival sells no tickets to the general public, and access is reserved for accredited film professional
• How to attend Royal Ascot
  Tickets are sold on Ascot's official ticketing site, eticketing.co.uk/ascotracecourse, from £25 in the Windsor Enclosure
• How does an auction work?
  The pre-sale exhibition is public and free; to bid, you simply register free of charge with the auction house, with ID a

Dress codes

• What to wear to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
  Strict dress, jacket and tie, is the code listed for the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, on October 3 and 4, 2026 at th
• What to wear to the opera
  For an ordinary performance, no mandatory evening dress appears in any of the regulations we have checked: polished city
• What to wear to Royal Ascot
  In the Royal Enclosure at Royal Ascot, hats are mandatory for women, with dress straps at least 2.5 cm wide, and no stra
• What to wear to a ball in Vienna
  White tie tailcoat for gentlemen, floor-length ball gown for ladies: that is the official rule of the great Viennese bal
• What is the black tie dress code
  Black tie is the evening code of the dinner jacket: a black wool dinner jacket, single-breasted, without vents, with sil
• What is white tie?
  White tie is the most formal and the rarest evening dress code: it calls for a black tailcoat with silk lapels, worn ope
• What to wear to a gala
  As a general rule, a gala is held in black tie: a dinner jacket for men, an evening gown, preferably full length, for wo
• What do women wear for black tie?
  An evening gown, preferably long; a very dressy cocktail dress is accepted at most galas. Color is free, fabrics should

Prices

• How much do Art Basel Paris tickets cost
  Public and Premium tickets for Art Basel Paris 2026 are sold online at artbasel.com; no figure is published in our verif
• How much does entry to the Monaco Yacht Show cost
  Entry to the 2026 Monaco Yacht Show costs €700 including tax for one day, Thursday through Saturday, €1,300 for two days
• How much does a ticket to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe cost
  From €10 in the Village de l'Arc and €20 for the general enclosure, on the official France Galop ticketing site. The oth
• How much does New Year's Eve at a palace hotel cost?
  The only rate published in our file is La Mamounia's: from 4,200 to 8,000 Moroccan dirhams (MAD) per person for the 2025
• Is Geneva jewelry week free to attend
  Yes, for the most part. The public exhibitions of the lots are free: at Sotheby's, at the Mandarin Oriental in Geneva fr

Bookings

• How to get tickets to the Vienna Opera Ball
  Only through the Opernball-Büro of the Wiener Staatsoper, the sole official point of sale. For the edition of Thursday,
• How to get a box at the Wiener Philharmoniker Ball
  By writing directly to the Wiener Philharmoniker: box orders are placed exclusively in writing, by post or email, in the
• When to book the LVMH Journées Particulières
  Reservations open in the course of September 2026 on the official website lvmh.com, for the October 16 to 18, 2026 editi
• When to book New Year's Eve at a palace hotel
  Write now: none of these palace hotels has yet published its 2026 New Year's Eve rates, and at the Badrutt's Palace, whi
• What are the LVMH Journées Particulières
  Les Journées Particulières are the LVMH group's open-doors event: for their 6th edition, from October 16 to 18, 2026, 46

Vocabulary

• What is a vernissage
  A vernissage is the opening night of an exhibition, held before the doors open to the general public, usually by invitat
• What does RSVP mean
  RSVP abbreviates the French formula "Répondez s'il vous plaît," printed on invitations to request a reply, whether you a
• What is a guest list
  A guest list is the named list of invitees settled by the organizer before an event: only the names on it get through th
• What is the front row at a fashion show?
  The front row is the first row of seats at a fashion show, running along the runway, reserved for the house's most impor
• What does VIC mean in fashion
  VIC stands for Very Important Client: the status a fashion house grants its most loyal clients. It is built through a si
• What does tenue de soirée mean
  On an invitation card, "tenue de soirée" calls for the most formal register: an evening gown, often floor-length, for wo
• What is a dress code
  A dress code is the standard of dress set by the host or organizer of an event, stated on the invitation or the ticket.
• What is an auction paddle?
  The paddle is the numbered panel the auction house hands to each registered bidder: raised in the saleroom, it signals a
• What is an enclosure at the races
  An enclosure is a reserved area of a British racecourse: each has its own ticket, its own services and its own dress cod
• What is an evening sale
  The evening sale is an auction house's prestige session: it gathers the season's major lots before a room of registered
• What is a hospitality package at an event
  A hospitality package is a paid formula that adds to the entry ticket a reserved space, catering and a prime position. I
• What is morning dress?
  Morning dress, la jaquette in French, is the most formal daytime ceremonial attire in the men's wardrobe: a long tailed
• What is a quadrille at a ball
  The quadrille is a collective set dance, performed in square formation by groups of couples moving through a sequence of
• How does a ball ticket lottery work
  Some great balls allocate their individual entry tickets by lottery: you register during a short window, then the draw d