To mark the 50th anniversary of the event that WWD dubbed the “Battle of Versailles,” director Deborah Riley Draper plans a special screening during Paris Fashion Week in tandem with a design competition backed by her production company Coffee Bluff Pictures along with French fashion house Ungaro and the With Love Halston Foundation.

“Young people need to be inspired, and they need to know their history,” Riley Draper said. “We have to expose our young minds to all the places that they can play and all the places that they can innovate and be creative, and make sure that that canvas is available to them.”

Participants will present their creations on Sept. 27, and the winners will be revealed at the Ungaro headquarters on Sept. 29 in the presence of the brand’s creative director Kobi Halperin.

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