“Wait, your skin. I’m obsessed,” says warmly when we meet for the first time. It’s the Sunday before the annual Met Gala in , and the willowy 43-year-old has spent her weekend preparing the world’s most recognizable faces for the event’s red carpet. Now, she has her hands on my not-at-all-famous mug to give Robb Report an exclusive preview of her latest project: a rigorously customized facial she has been developing with for the past two years.

The $1,300 service, unironically called the , is the most exclusive offering at the French maison’s first permanent in the United States, which sits atop its recently renovated Manhattan flagship on 57th Street. (While Akram is based in the nation’s capital, she’ll travel to New York for three to four days each month, through the end of the year,

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