Apple Martin’s debut into society

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What do people think about this. I can’t believe it’s still a thing in our modern society. Being presented to society in a debutante ball. How very antiquated.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14148249/Apple-Martin-Debutante-Ball-Chris-Gwyneth-Paltrow-Paris.html

I completely misread it and thought it was something to do with Apple Martinis.

Whoever made the dress probably wanted a name to draw publicity. They’re using Apples name and frankly beauty (she is a good looking kid) to sell to the kids of oligarchs. Some girl in the UAE or a former Soviet bloc country is now pestering her dad for a fancier experience than what Apple had and I think that’s the actual point. That’s who the designers and party planners are aiming at IMO.

People are posting that this is ‘auctioning’ a daughter off - I don’t think it’s intended as a marriage market at all anymore. But I do think it’s probably about making business connections and writing off a ‘donation’ to ‘charity’ when in fact it’s just an excuse for a party.

I don’t get how the ball makes money let alone gives to charity, because they say potential debs can’t buy an entry.

Or is that a ‘donation to charity’ gets you entry?

@Gherkinslice IMO Gwyneth sees as fun event as does her daughter.Poss helps with Vogue etc & career via Vogue etc as some said upthread.

It’s because you can’t just bit a ticket.

You have to be invited a buy a whole table, and goodness only knows what the cost of that would be!

Aren't the Paltrow family "old money"?

@wizzywig kinda - GP knows the score & lie of land. She’s not taking it too seriously IMO.

Donna did the dip thing on Beverly Hills 90210. It looks really uncomfortable and quite ridiculous.

The Paltrow family are very much "established glamour", and hardly any of the other attendees are royalty.

Apple Martin is a student at Vanderbilt, which is a very well-regarded private university in Nashville, a city that is not all honky tonk bars and country music. It attracts a wide variety of students and offers excellent financial aid to the less well off, but it also attracts students from seriously wealthy families from all over the South and further afield. She's also a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, which is well known as the rich girl sorority. She's well able to hold her own among the super rich. She may well just be a sulky little madam in general.

The line between celebrity and royalty/ aristocracy is completely blurred at this point. This wasn't a debutante ball in the stodgy old fashioned British sense.

Lol, no. If I was, she wouldn't have been called Apple.

I'm here to contradict the quaint notion some British people insist to be true, namely that Americans (of any milieu) can't get enough of Britain and Britishness and the British. It's a notion that is pure jingoistic self flattery.

@mathanxiety Can you explain why Americans put their fraternity or sorority on their cv? Dh ran a project in DC for postgraduate, and they all seemed to be in one. Is it important for networking between colleges? Is it like Russell Group?
And what is homecoming?

I think they thought this would be a bit of fun, Apple seemed to have been not taking it too seriously, which resulted in loads of judgey comments in the media on her bring entitled and rude. Feel sorry for young people these days, everything getting overanalysed and criticised due to it all being filmed and put out there.