Guests at the Jacquemus show at the Palace of Versailles on Monday afternoon could imagine themselves in any number of famous French paintings, or historical films, as they were ferried in small rowboats on the Grand Canal, shielding themselves from the sun with ivory-colored parasols and taking in the grandeur of the chateau in the distance.
Baroque music from the time of Louis XIV swelled from speakers shielded by camouflage amid the…