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Revered Maison, Loro Piana, marked the reimagining of its New Bond Street store in spectacular style last night, with a dinner and megawatt party at the Royal Academy, led by CEO Frédéric Arnault. Sophie Goodwin shares a behind-the-scenes look at the event.

 

BY SOPHIE GOODWIN | HAPPENINGS | 14 NOVEMBER 2025

A Night at the Royal Academy with Loro Piana. All images © Loro Piana

 

London's Royal Academy shone particularly bright last night, as the worlds of film, fashion, art, culture and media collided in spectacular style. 

Guests of Loro Piana, including Eddie Redmayne, Lucie de la Falaise, Conde Nast’s Jonathan and Ronnie Newhouse, and the British Museum's Director of Development, Charlotte Appleyard, descended on the RA to toast the Italian Maison's enduring prowess, and take in Fragments of an Exhibition – an insight into Loro Piana's 100-year exhibition in Shanghai earlier this year.

Loro Piana’s reputation for elite fabrics and exceptional fibres is second to none: swaddled in cashmere, Princess Olympia Napoléon Bonaparte, Ella Richards and Laura de Gunzburg – clutching the Maison's new handbag, the L23 Extra – were seated at beautiful bespoke mirror tables spread across the Academy's different rooms, all reflecting the frescos above. Sensational floral arrangements took center stage throughout: exploding roses in all shades of soft pinks, apricots and terracottas.

 

Simon Wallis, Ronnie Newhouse, Jonathan Newhouse and Batia Ofer © Loro Piana.

 

A true Italian feast was served, the brainchild of Bertie de Rougemont of Cellar Society whose A-team of culinary creatives and handsome comrades, in starched white tunics offset with gold buttons, is unrivalled. Guests dined on a traditional Piedmontese home cooked feast: Agnolotti (fresh pasta) stuffed with four regional cheeses; Seiras (local ricotta), Mascarpone, Grana Padano and Castelmagno. This was followed by beef braised in Barolo with whipped polenta, artfully paired with delicious organic wine.


 

After-dinner entertainment included music from a harpist in the Royal Academy's General Assembly Room, galleries typically kept under lock and key. Opened exclusively for the event, the assembly room sprung to life with a time-honored banchetto di nozze: a dessert banquet with miniature pastries, fresh fruit piled high, petit fours, and lemon meringues on towering silver platters. 

On a London high, guests of the House, including Tatiana De Pahlen, Inigo Lambertini and Maria Grazia Lambertini, ordered nightcaps before braving the rain to journey home.

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