Le Royal Monceau Hotel, in Paris, Is the Luxury Hotel For Beauty-Obsessed Locals

I wasn’t expecting to get a masterclass in French beauty in the lobby of Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris hotel. But as I looked out at a sea of angular bobs among the tables at Il Carpaccio, its Italian restaurant, I nibbled focaccia and took notes.

If you’re looking for the Paris of TikTok and a marketing executive named Emily, you’ve come to the wrong place. The scene at the Royal Monceau is straight out of La Maison, Apple TV’s Succession-like drama about a French fashion house. I mistook three women for Amira Casar, who plays a feisty model-muse, before ordering my rigatoni.