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During lunch at Caviar Kaspia with Piaget, Christine and her close friends recall a recent robbery of an acquaintance at a private airport in Paris. This is not a woman who travels light, or cheaply, so she often double books her own airport assistance to get through customs, and her own car service-even if a brand also offers to book one for her. “What if someone bombs the shows? Could you imagine? A lot of them don’t have high security,” she says anxiously on our first day together. Over the next few days, it’s evident that security is constantly on Christine’s mind. “It’s filled with all my jewelry,” she tells me.

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Still dressed in her clothes from the flight-citron floral silk pajama pants and a matching floor-length robe-she is teetering on platforms with a full face of makeup, lashes included, as she takes a minute to deliberate what to do with the small Louis Vuitton monogram suitcase at her feet. Her room, the presidential suite, isn't ready for her yet, and her Valentino fitting is looming.

On the first day of the Haute Couture shows, I meet Christine at her hotel as soon as she touches down in Paris. 'For red carpet appearances the brand will always give us a heads up,' Christine explains, but that may not always be the case for editorial placements. Demi Moore was also the first person to debut a tuxedo-inspired Chanel Haute Couture gown that Christine had already purchased, in the October 2019 issue of Harper's Bazaar. When Celine Dion planned to wear the same couture dress as Christine to the Alexandre Vauthier show, the brand alerted Christine and asked her to wear something else to avoid a faux pas. However, when it comes to Hollywood, A-listers always get first dibs-even if they're not technically buying it. client that Christine had set her sights on, she’ll offer to buy as a Taiwanese client (she also has a home there), and promises the brand she’ll only wear it for events in her native country. If she's not fast enough and a look has already been snapped up by a U.S. Some will only sell one dress per country or per territory-meaning as soon as a designer takes their bow at the end of the show, Christine is already texting the brand's sales rep about the looks she wants for the season. The buying of Haute Couture is now a competitive sport, according to Christine, with each fashion house enforcing strict rules (which vary depending on designer) around how they sell their Haute Couture pieces. I hear prices being called out from the fitting room. We’re quickly led to the room that houses all 65 Christian Dior Haute Couture looks from the Fall 2019 show that debuted just a day earlier. Christine selects four pieces to try on, two rings and two pairs of earrings, with prices ranging from €160,000 to €200,000 per piece. The dark room amplifies the spotlights on each jewelry podium: Everything sparkles in their velvet trays, with several silver star stickers identifying the dozens of pieces that have already been spoken for. She already has an idea of the Dior looks that she wants-the full lace catsuit (look 6), a strapless gown with leather fringe skirt (look 9), and a couple of lace dresses (looks 35 and 44)-but first we’re led downstairs to see Dior’s high jewelry collection, an organized-by-color spectacle of emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds.

The Chanel show is only two hours away, and she’ll need to go back to the hotel to change.

But Christine will need to complete her purchase in 30 minutes or less. Her Dior sales rep from Beverly Hills, who is leading the way, notes that a private room has been booked for the next 90 minutes. Gabriel Chiu), philanthropy, and an ambitious social life. I’m following behind Christine Chiu, a multi-hyphenate Los Angeles dweller who splits her attention between Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery (the practice she founded with her husband, Dr. Everyone waltzing around the pristine maison is dressed in head-to-toe Dior. Outside, tables are set with Dior homewares, a make-your-own flower bouquet booth (peonies! dahlias! cherry blossoms!), next to an elaborate set-up for a portrait photo shoot. As I enter the Dior headquarters on an unusually hot Paris morning, the first thing I notice is several private pastry chefs baking fresh croissants and tarte tatins.

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