THOROUGHLY MORDERN MILLIES

Anticipating a night of glamour, haute couture and youthful exuberance, Chloe Street heads to Paris for Le Bal des Débutantes

Photography TIM GRIFFITHS

Perched on the lavish marble staircase in the lobby of the Peninsula Paris, Dinh Thi Nam Phuong is a vision in a voluminous fuchsia couture creation. Petite, pretty and dripping in diamonds, Vietnam’s representative at Le Bal de Débutantes looks every bit the aristocratic beauty. And yet just hours before donning her beautiful Alexis Mabille gown, the 22-year-old Oxford graduate (politics, philosophy and economics) was interviewed for a job via Skype by a major London management consultancy. During the interview she discussed the Nam Phuong Foundation, the charity she established while at university to help poor Vietnamese children get an education. “I think it’s interesting to do the unexpected in life,” she tells me later. “You should never try to box people into categories because you will often be really surprised.” Nam…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2017

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