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Speaking of progress: The decision by Hedi Slimane of Celine to eschew the black box venues he constructed for his live shows for the sunshine and open air of the ���Ի��é Le Nôtre gardens at Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte for his digital shows has been something of a revelation.

���Ի��é Le Nôtre, Louis XIV the Sun King’s gardener first designed the wide promenade lined with a double row of elm trees on each side, called the Grand Cours.

Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux and ���Ի��é Le Nôtre are names nearly as well known as their famous landscapes — Central Park for Olmsted and Vaux, and Versailles for Le Nôtre, the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France.

If Le Nôtre’s creation spoke of unlimited royal power, those of his English counterpart, “Capability” Brown, warned of its limits, and the dangers of overreach.

For more than 40 years, beginning in 1661, Le Nôtre labored to create at Versailles the grandest and most imposing royal garden the world had ever seen.