For Paris couture shows, venues as chic as the fashions they showcase

Just hours before the Versace couture show began in Paris last month, Donatella, the creative force behind the brassy Italian house, snapped a photo of the most glittering piece on display. "My beautiful room!" she wrote on Instagram of a neo-baroque chandelier, dozens of which hang in the former Hôtel Potocki, where Versace staged its 2014 spring couture show. Before any of her Swarovski-encrusted models sailed through the city palace -- which now, fittingly, houses the Paris Chamber of Commer...