PFW SS22: Lanvin

Imogen Clark
Fashion, Fashion Shows, News
WHEN a designer takes the reins of a fashion house over there is a fundamental task ahead of them. How do you bring the past to the present whilst also putting your own touch on it? For creative director Bruno ...

PFW SS17: Lanvin

Sara Hesikova
Fashion, Fashion Shows, News
BOUCHRA Jarrar presented her first runway show for Lanvin for PFW SS17 – after having already presented an earlier Resort collection – which she staged against the backdrop of Salon de l‘Hôtel de Ville with a b...

PFW AW16: Lanvin

Livia Feltham
Fashion, Fashion Shows, News
THROWBACKS were on the agenda for the design team designated to fill the void that Alber Elbaz’s shock departure in October of last year left at the Paris-based fashion house, Lanvin. A throwback to Alber’s hey...

Alber Elbaz leaves Lanvin

Livia Feltham
Fashion, News
In a week that’s also seen another major designer, Raf Simons, parting ways with a major fashion brand, Dior, Alber Elbaz has left Lanvin. Talk that Elbaz is in the process of moving to Dior is now rife foll...

In the final analysis

Livia Feltham
Fashion Shows, Feature
It was a season that saw some designers saying a new hello to the fashion pack (Peter Copping’s debut as creative director at Oscar de la Renta), some bidding adieu (Alexander Wang at Balenciaga) and some forgo...

PFW SS16: Lanvin

Livia Feltham
Fashion, Fashion Shows, News
At Lanvin this season Alber Elbaz did no wrong once again in a show that questioned what it takes to put together a collection of “trend” lead pieces dictated by more-ish marketability. Instead, the dynamic des...

The Glass library

Nicola Kavanagh
Books, Feature
“When we arrived in Paris, Rei Kawakubo and I, we weren’t completely aware of what we were doing” – Yohji Yamamoto. And so it started: yet another remarkable chapter in the life of this humblest of...

PFW AW15: Lanvin

Xenia Founta
News
Wafting a mistral of Moroccan memories, Lanvin AW15 was an amalgamation of North African and European influences. Uniting past with modern, Alber Elbaz, creative director of the luxury house since 2001, wanted ...

Paris Menswear AW15: Lanvin

Livia Feltham
News
Lanvin are perhaps better equipped to do this season’s ubiquitous approach to understated luxury than any other menswear offshoot brand out there. There is something about their brand identity that says dark br...

PFW SS15: Lanvin

Livia Feltham
News
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Lanvin is the one French fashion institution that puts on the kind of show that really makes all the excitement centred around Paris on the last international stop-off SS15 will be making for the season really ...

Paris Menswear SS15: Lanvin

Livia Feltham
News
There was an inordinate sense of pace at Lanvin on the final day of spring summer 2015’s menswear itinerary. All the same, if any brand has a firm hold on quick perspicacious elegance in our modern world it’s o...

PFW AW14: Lanvin

Nicola Kavanagh
News
Alber, Alber, Alber, in how many ways dost though pleasure us? The Lanvin show is always a treat. Alber Elbaz’s impeccable taste and masterful understanding of what looks good on a woman make the collection an ...