Inside the 'nepo baby Débutant ball': Well-heeled young women including Apple Martin, Sophia Loren's granddaughter and children of the French nobility - don designer gowns for society debut in Paris
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As the daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow, Apple Martin will have attended her fair share of glamorous Hollywood parties in her 20 years. But the prestigious Les Bal des Débutantes, which the aspiring model attended on Saturday night, will have almost certainly been a cut above the rest.
![[Pictured: Debutantes Peyton Spaht, Alienor Loppin de Montmort and Oona Finch dance the night away in dresses by Dolce & Gabbana, Chanel and Emmanuel Ungaro]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/02/11/92694831-14148333-image-a-21_1733137940443.jpg)
The annual event, which was first held at the Palace of Versailles in 1958, sees 20 young ladies from some of the most important families in the world being introduced into society. This year's event was held at the five-star Hotel Shangri-La, where rooms cost $1,000-a-night, and proceeds were divided between the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in the US and the cardiology research unit at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital.
![[Pictured: Princess Eugenie de Bourbon and her date Charles-Constantin de Habsbourg-Lorraine at the ball]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/02/11/92695027-14148333-image-m-32_1733138542767.jpg)
For their introduction into high society, the debutantes, who are hand-picked by the organisers, wore designer ball gowns from some of the world's top fashion houses - including Chanel, Valentino and Oscar de la Renta. For the event, Apple Martin wore a bespoke baby blue strapless gown, which took 750 hours to create and was designed by Alessandro Michele - the creative director of Valentino.
![[Pictured: Sofia Yadigaroglu (wearing Iris van Herpen), Sienna Gallienne (wearing Dior), Cornelia Manou (wearing Celia Kritharioti), Lucia Sofia Ponti, (wearing Giorgio Armani), the Countess Alienor Loppin de Montmort (wearing Emmanuel Ungaro)]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/02/11/92694883-14148333-image-m-24_1733138076096.jpg)
After descending down the hotel's grand marble staircase, the debutantes took of the room, which was filled with proud parents and noble families, before waltzing with their dates on the dance floor. However, Chris Martin's daughter - whose date was Austro-Hungarian aristocrat Leo Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck - wasn't the only debutante at the ball with a Hollywood connection.
![[This year's event was held at the five-star Hotel Shangri-La, where rooms cost $1,000-a-night, and proceeds went towards the city's Necker-Enfants Malades hospital]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/02/10/92694329-14148333-image-a-7_1733137173733.jpg)
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