“A woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her.”
Alber Elbaz
Lets continue the Lanvin week with a gorgeous retrospective of some of the most beautiful and memorable looks from every ready-to-wear fashion show that made women feel weak at the knees, every heart – skip a beat and every man – fall in love with a woman in Lanvin.
When you look at these clothes, you understand that Lanvin isn’t just about elegance and femininity, but about the timeless chic and unique personalities expressed through artfully crafted garments.
Truly, smart girls invest in Lanvin.
Fall 2002
“This was an optimistic start to a new chapter in Elbaz's career and he was loudly applauded for it.” style.com
Spring 2003
“A rare vision of luxurious dressing, balancing luster with rawness in a grown-up, wearable way.” style.com
Fall 2003
“Crafted with extraordinary skill, the collection was another step in the re-evaluation of charm and luxury that is shaping up as fashion’s newest movement.” style.com
Spring 2004
“Close up, there were many extraordinary items; but now Elbaz needs to mould and edit his technique to an image that's completely satisfying.” style.com
Fall 2004
“Alber Elbaz has been putting an inordinate amount of thought into making his vision of glamorous dressing an easy, relevant proposition for modern women.” style.com
Spring 2005
“A beautifully shaded demonstration of Elbaz's growing insight into how lovely can also mean realistic.” style.com
Fall 2005
“Each of those pieces explains why Elbaz belongs to a super elite of fashion frontrunners who are leaving most other collections in the distance.”
Spring 2006
“It showed exactly how a designer as influential as Elbaz can make the decisive difference between what went on six months ago and what's right now. Genius.” style.com
Fall 2006
“These constitute the kind of personal, under-the-radar chic that makes women rave about Elbaz” style.com
Spring 2007
“When you're stuck, you go romantic," is how the designer put it. "With freedom of spirit, you can go further. I wanted to touch technology, engineering, silicone, nylon, metal, and plastic. And a new place for the pragmatic." style.com
Fall 2007
“What Elbaz came across was a sheaf of illustrations of Lanvin's wide-shouldered thirties gowns and that was enough to set him off on a path of intense cutting research, which led to one of the strongest advances in modern dressing to come out of the Paris shows. "It's all in the sleeve," he said.” style.com
Spring 2008
“For lightness, technical brilliance, and sheer heart-racing excitement, Alber Elbaz's Spring collection was one of the most uplifting shows of the entire season.” style.com
Fall 2008
“In a season when so many have anxiously cast around for what women will want in a recession, Elbaz has intuited the best answer of all: Give us restraint, give us pragmatism, but never slam the door on the possibility of utter gorgeousness.” style.com
Spring 2009
“A counterintuitive moment, maybe, but it reflected something this designer understands as well as he does the principles of rational dressing: Even when times are dark, there's still room for clothes to make women keel over with desire.” style.com
Fall 2009
“I thought with my heart about what women need from fashion—dresses, suits, blouses, coats. Life isn't just parties and lunches.” style.com
Spring 2010
“The collection was a triumph of breathtaking technical achievement: drapey, pleated jumpsuits in polyester ("like collapsing fabric," Elbaz said); a candy-store array of pink, salmon, peach, and vermilion; a dash of extraordinary fine leather (an unforgettable carnation red dress); and a build-up of encrusted gold sequins and jewellery.” style.com
Fall 2010
“It was visually sensational and layered with dynamic contradictions.” style.com
Spring 2011
“The skin thing was a big deal. Elbaz loves a wrinkle. So he created a collection that was a hymn to skin: wrinkled in Fortuny-like pleating, stretched in all those sheaths - a spectacular foundation for increasingly heady colours.” style.com
Fall 2011
“This intriguing show might have been telling us that reality is whatever you make it.” style.com
“I love personalities. I don’t like just pretty girls. The moment I see a woman, my task is to find the piece that, when I put it on her, I will not see the clothes but I see her face. I don’t want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman. And fit doesn’t mean that it’s fitting the body. It has to fit her mind.”
Alber Elbaz
Photo sources: Vanity Fair January 2010, style.com, elle.com
Quotes sources: style.com, nymag.com
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