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Jan 26, 2013

Lanvin Fall 2012 is Alber Elbaz's 10th Anniversary with the House.

Alber Elbaz celebrated his 10th year at Lanvin singing. He has evolved so much in his talent since he started designing for the house of Lanvin. This fall collection was full wonderful ideas that had a sense of heightened feminine power. Yes, this collection had looks that were powerful, seductive, modern, chic and elegant. Silhouettes had exagerated hips, ruffles, peplums, and reinvented exagerated sleeves that worked well with some looks. The first group of suits and dresses projected that power in bright colors.

The line up then turned to show that a woman can look tough yet feminine at the same time. El baz designed these looks smartly because he did not over do anything one bit by maintaining the balnance of strength and femininity. The end was a line up of fun, youthful looks that were flirty and fresh as well as structered and tastefully flashy.

I am certain that the next 10 years at Lanvin will be extremely bright, energetic and majestic as long as Alber Elbaz leads the way with his incredible talent and his eye for modern style and glamor. Congratulations!

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Jun 19, 2012

Liking Lanvin for Spring/Summer 2012

When a designer has created a string of fabulous collections that were successful it indicates that it would be unwise to just coast along and relax. It is more about thinking more or less out of the box. And Alber Elbaz thought about how the Internet has changed the way he designs. "I thought 'All I want is a gray jogging suit, but in the street it will be so boring,'" said Elbaz during a preview. "Then I said, 'You know what? We are not X-raying everything.' So for me it was more important [how the clothes] would feel than how it would photograph."

Elbaz came up with clothes perfect and chic for comfort. And so the jogging suit made it along with the T-shirts, pencil skirts and loose shirt dresses opened the show. The Track pants with side stripes and slits were sexy. A white T-shirt was done with special, structured sleeves. And the stretch scuba material was worked into tight skirts, boned on one side to prevent from riding up. A spectacular color-blocked dress with long sleeves and a bejeweled snake slithering up the side and around the neck was a delight.

Elbaz moved away from the draping and tucking that shaped most successful collections but he pointed out that his costumers wanted it. He found a way to reinstate it through pronounced, padded shoulders created from tucked fabric on sleeveless blouses, silky sweatshirts and tailored jackets. Elbaz called them "wings".

In the end there was a fabulous Eighties vibe that was completely out of control with chic and glamour. Crystal crosses and gold chokers were piled on and were absolutely fun. Tracksuits were done in green and black snake prints and dresses that were soft and pleated held with safety pins are perfect touches to the line up. This is a wonderful sense of evolution always happening at Lanvin and Alber Elbaz is behind it all. Jeanne Lanvin would be absolutely proud.