” on Tuesday in Paris. The inaugural event celebrates the “Louvre Couture: Art and Fashion — Statement Pieces” exhibit, which explores how precious objects from Byzantine times through to the Second French Empire have inspired designers over the years.

“This is really the first time that the Louvre has decided to create an exhibition about the relationship between fashion and its own collections,” Olivier Gabet, director of the decorative arts department at the Louvre Museum, told WWD last August.

Here, see the arrival looks from Louvre’s first Grand Fashion Dinner.