She has just spent her breakfast being photographed in the hotel’s Bar Les Ambassadeurs for this magazine.
In two hours’ time she will co-host a lunch for 22 with Laure Hériard Dubreuil, the founder of Miami-based fashion powerhouse The Webster. It’s Fashion Week, she’s here for only three days, and she has a lot on her plate: she arrived from Hong Kong, where she lives with her husband and five children, and went straight to a handful of shows. The 42-year-old CEO of Rosewood Hotel Group – which in 2017 assumed management of this Parisian institution, commissioned by Louis XV in 1758 – is wearing a fawn-coloured Saint Laurent blazer over a white T-shirt, a thick gold-snake chain and an aura of total focus. Sonia Cheng walks into the Butterfly Pâtisserie at the Hôtel de Crillon at 10am on the dot on a Saturday. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
