Le Bal des Débutantes, also known as le Bal, is a debutante ball and fashion event in Paris that is held annually in November. It brings together between 20 and 25 debutantes from many countries. It i
Vanity Fair photo shoot with the 2011 debutantes
Sokhna N'dour and Anouchka Delon dressing for the ball in 2008
Debutantes at the 2009 ball at the Hôtel de Crillon
Eileen Feng Gu, also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing, is a Chinese-American freestyle skier and model. She has represented China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air events since the 2018–19 seaso
Bal des débutantes
…high schooler who won the first prize of the Google Science Fair for inventing a test for the Ebola virus – debuted. In 2022, Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu attended le Bal after winning two gold medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Each debutante is escorted by a cavalier. The cavalier may be a young man…
Gu's second run in the Women's Freeski Halfpipe Qualification at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
Gu's first run at Women's Freeski Big Air Qualification, 2022 Olympics
Mascot ceremony of freestyle skiing — women's halfpipe at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 20 January 2020. Left to right: Li Fanghui, Eileen Gu and Hanna Faulhaber