Avery Trufelman

It was a real classic makeover montage.

I actually have a scrapbook I could pull out and show you.

Yeah.

Linda has kept nearly every party invitation, every dinner menu.

And in her scrapbook, there are lots and lots of photos.

And Linda looks like a supermodel.

She's tall and thin with blonde bobbed hair and her three-strand pearl choker, always with a drink in hand, flushed with laughter.

The Théâtre de la Mode was reopened in Paris in May of 1990 at the Musée des Arts de la Mode.

It was a smash success.

There were parties and photo shoots and press interviews, and it was like Linda had gone through the looking glass.

She was living the very fantasy that the Théâtre de la Mode represented.

Case in point, back in Washington State, Linda had cut out an article from Vogue about the up-and-coming dress designer Hervé Léger.

And in Paris, Susan brought Linda to Hervé Léger's studio to get a dress fitted for her.

It's simple.

Black and white with a drop waist.

In her blonde bob and her Herve Leger dress, Linda looked like a 90s flapper.

It was like a fairy tale.

Especially because this Herve Leger dress was for an actual ball.

After France, the Théâtre de la Mode was exhibited at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it was on display during the Met Gala that year.

And the Met Gala is just the fashion party.