NIGHT OF STARS: Budget cuts? What budget cuts? Kering may be on a cost-cutting drive under new chief executive officer Luca de Meo, but you wouldn’t know it from the bombastic show Saint Laurent staged on Monday night.

The executive, attending his first show at Paris Fashion Week since his appointment earlier this month , could be forgiven for thinking the brand was trying to set a new record of celebrities per square foot.

In a rare appearance, Madonna arrived fashionably late with her daughter Lourdes Leon and boyfriend Akeem Morris. That gave guests plenty of time to take in the pre-show action.

Flashbulbs went into overdrive as Charli XCX took her seat next to Hailey Bieber , Zoë Kravitz and Rosé of K-pop group Blackpink , dressed in a skimpy négligée. Designer Jean Paul

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