On a cool evening in May, in a suite at the Maybourne Riviera hotel – an ultra-modern, cube-like edifice perched high on the cliffside overlooking Monaco and designed by French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte –Charlotte Casiraghi, the Monégasque writer, journalist, film producer, avid equestrian, humanitarian, and the eleventh in line to the throne in the principality of Monaco, is readying herself for the evening ahead. The 36-year-old, dressed in a T-shirt and Chanel quilted denim jeans, scrutinises the high-pony position of a scrunchie in her hair. “I look like a teenager”, she says with an uncertain tone to her hairstylist.
The preppy look won't fly tonight: Casiraghi is guest of honour at the after-show event of the Chanel Monte Carlo resort '23 show, staged earlier in the day on the pebbled shoreline of the Monte-Carlo Beach hotel. This evening's celebrations, a sit-down dinner and afterparty for 300 guests, will take place at La Vigie – a Belle Époque Italian-style villa overlooking
