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Look up, and there was a mannequin in overblown jewel-toned floral �����DZ��é, leaning languidly over a banister and observing; open a closet and find a trench covered in 44,000 leather and patent “sequins” sewn together to mimic snakeskin; peek behind a door and see a woman clad in puddling iridescent silver.

On the block will be a robin’s egg blue �����DZ��é silk cocktail dress with satin fringe that Givenchy designed for Hepburn for a 1966 editorial photo shoot with William Klein promoting “Two for the Road” with Albert Finney.

For the occasion, the Queen wore a deep jade, silk cloque dress by Angela Kelly, as well as a pearl and diamond brooch previously worn by the late Queen Mother.

It can be Peter Copping’s slow subversion of the appropriate at Oscar de la Renta, pairing sheer skinny knits with rounded tulip skirts, boned at the waist; adding stretch corsetry to a little black dress; and molding dusty floral �����DZ��é over a strapless cocktail number.

The highlight of the catwalk show, apart from Roitfeld high-fiving most of the models as they passed, was the Giambattista Valli silk cloque dress with sequin-embroidered flowers, and a great bow on the bust.