[13] Le Bal took place in 2013 and 2014 at Hôtel Raphael[14] and in 2015 was held in the Palais de Chaillot, which overlooks the Eiffel Tower.

[6] In 2022, it supported the ARCFA (Association pour la Recherche en Cardiologie du Fœtus à l'Adulte) of the Necker Children's Hospital and the World Central Kitchen.

[25][10] In interviews, the débutantes usually speak of the pleasure of wearing couture dresses, the charity aspect of the event,[19] and the opportunity to meet girls from different countries.

[28] The organizer, Renouard, has stated that choosing the cavaliers based on their ages, the language they speak, their heights, and possibly their backgrounds usually produces an optimal match for the débutantes.

[31] Many others are daughters of actors and industry tycoons, such as Ava Philippe, Jane Li, Annabel Yao, Stella Belmondo, True Whitaker, Ella Beatty, Viola Mikkelsen, Sophia-Rose Stallone, Scout LaRue, Ondine and Harper Peck, and Natasha Connery.

Others are famous in their own right, such as ballerinas and young prodigies: a few years ago, Lauren Marbe, the daughter of a cab driver in the UK whose IQ exceeded Einstein’s, and in 2015, Olivia Hallisey, an American high schooler who won the first prize of the Google Science Fair for inventing a test for the Ebola virus.

[32] In 2022 Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu attended le Bal[33] after winning two gold medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

[38] In 2018, the Indo-French fashion house Lecoanet Hemant made a gown for Princess Ananya Raje Scindia of Gwalior.

[40] In 2008, French actor Jean Rochefort's daughter Clémence made her debut wearing a Nina Ricci ball gown.

[41] Anna Cleveland van Ravenstein, on the other hand, had been modeling for Chanel for years before "Uncle" Karl Lagerfeld helped her to pick out a vintage gown for le Bal.

[45] After this, the débutantes put on their dresses, long gloves, shoes,[22] and jewels, and there are individual and group photo sessions[46] which last for the rest of the day.

[67] It has been claimed that "Le Bal has really maintained its exclusivity; all the top designers participate, and there have never been any sleazy photographs of the débutantes.