When Camilla Al Fayed and Acne Paper editor Thomas Persson met recently, creative sparks flew, a collaboration began, and the Harrods heiress offered to host a party for the magazine's new issue at the Paris Ritz, her father's other operation. A celebration of eroticism (the mag's theme) at the legendary hotel is an invitation too good to pass up: Julie Verhoeven, who contributed a series of naughty drawings, came over from London, and representing the City of Light were Martine Sitbon, Haider Ackermann, Vincent Darré, and—no stranger to eroticism, judging by his online photo journal Purple-diary.com—Olivier Zahm.

Al Fayed is slated to start work on the next issue of Acne, but in the meantime she helped recruit the evening's entertainment, the one and only Velvet d'Amour. The oh-so rotund Velvet (Beth Ditto's Paris fashion week performance seems to have started a zaftig wave here) swept into the bar wrapped in a kimono and trilling an aria. Cue a belly-dancing standard and Velvet first dropped the robe, then proceeded to writhe almost out of her Mr. Pearl corset. In this she was aided by Aymeric, a burlesque performer and Mr. Pearl's petit main. Coincidentally, several male partygoers, including Persson, lost their dress shirts and the party really took off.

But it wasn't all Champagne and dancing. Alber Elbaz, Lucas Ossendrijver, and photographer Andreas Larsson somehow managed to shoot the Lanvin Fall men's campaign—a fact that most of the guests hardly noticed. We also spied Acne's Jonny Johansson, who played music before he started making jeans, cooking up a project with Malcolm McLaren.

— Rebecca Voight