PFWM SS20: Lanvin

HAVING only recently assumed the role of creative director of Lanvin in January 2019, Bruno Sialelli proves he is a force to be reckoned with at Paris SS20. The 31-year-old designer demonstrates his fierce dete...
Lanvin AW18

PFW AW18: Lanvin

MINIMALISM is a key attribute that Lanvin has excelled at for recent seasons, and nothing has changed for their AW18 collection. As the first look makes it debut the dim-lit surroundings act as a blank canvas, ...

PFW SS18: Lanvin

WITH only 40 days to create his collection, Olivier Lapidus showed at Paris Fashion week as the new creative director of Lanvin. Expectations were high for Lapidus, after the departure from two other creative d...

PFW SS17: Lanvin

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

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

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

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

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

“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...