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Kylie Rose performs during a show called “Versailles in Printemps: The Affair of the Poisons”. at the Printemps store in Lower Manhattan, New York City on July 21, 2025. Acrobatics, fortune tellers, opulent gowns and palace intrigue: the New York debut of the Versailles Royal Opera Orchestra was a performance befitting the era it recalls. The immersive show “The Affair of the Poisons” centered on France's 17th-century period of excess and seediness that its creator, Andrew Ousley, told AFP has parallels to the present day. At the evening staged in Manhattan's new Printemps luxury emporium, which opened in March on Wall Street, guests and performers alike donned velvet waistcoats, silky corsets, feathered headdresses and powdery makeup. (Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP Photo)
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