the white fairy tale love ball at château de wideville

A snow-dusted fairy tale ball at a real-life château - isn't that just wish-fulfillment and escapism at its best?

"The romantic set, with antique sleighs and conversational sofas and nineteenth-century antler chairs (draped in the patterned wool shawls that would prove useful accessories when chilly night finally fell), evoked the atmosphere of an aristocratic pre-Revolutionary dacha, all seemingly lost in a blizzard of faux snow. Perched on these seats in their frosty finery, Tatiana Santo Domingo (in a pale lace Philip Treacy mask), Eugenie Niarchos (in a diamond coronet), Coco Brandolini and Margherita Missoni (all dressed in current or vintage Valentino) looked like so many Chekhovian sisters."

Hamish Bowles (x)

For a view of the invitation go here & for moments captured on film here.

For the best-dressed attendees go behind the cut.

Derek Blasberg & Vanessa Traina

Elena Perminova

Astrid Munoz

Anne Hathaway

Margherita Missoni, Tatiana Santo Domingo & Eugenie Niarchos

Pictures: purple.fr, vogue.com, invitation, style.com, zimbio