Shoes sport the ‘J’ heel, easy sandals and precise pumps, sometimes frothed with feathers for a touch of the ludique men’s styles are classic Oxfords, sometimes embossed and hand-painted with flowers. Minaudières in textured metal resemble ice-cubes melting a humble openwork bag becomes an act of couture, executed in hand-made macramé. The Lanvin Concerto handbag is now offered with Brut metal hardware a new pouch folds leather, combined with a clasp that seems hand-forged. The human touch - the soul of couture - translates to accessories. And draped dresses in gossamer silk tulle echo Lanvin’s goddess gowns of the 1930s.

The eighteenth-century silhouette of Lanvin’s 1920s Robe de Style is sketched in plissé silk chiffon, delicate and weightless. Naïve and graphic patterns are drawn from gentlemen’s ties in the archive, printed onto radzimir for brief dresses and skirts. He means business.As ever, the archives of Lanvin and the rich creative universe of Jeanne Lanvin inspire. Sialelli’s global mindset feels like a real expansion of Lanvin. One of Jeanne Lanvin’s original robes de style from 1924 was, in fact, adorned with chinoiserie embroideries-and you could easily draw parallels between that silhouette and the traditional hanbok dresses of Korea. I think it expresses something that’s interesting to re-contextualize today.” Discussing his silhouettes, he mentioned “a certain rigidity,” explaining, “from the beginning, I’ve thought about characters like Maggie Cheung or Anna May Wong, who have this put-together attitude very neat. After stamping their name for a decade as a leading house in ballroom for fashion, the House of Xclusive Lanvin (one-time collaborators with the. “Art Deco’s three words were order, geometry, and color. The category called for a fashion orgasm. It’s interesting to observe the pendants between the 1920s and the 2020s,” Sialelli reflected. The complete Lanvin Spring 2022 Ready-to-Wear fashion show now on Vogue Runway. It became a huge company with hundreds of employees, ateliers, cosmetics, and everything. “Lanvin was at its strongest in between the World Wars. There was a porcelain-doll quality about it, which permeated a full-bodied collection covered in glistening embroideries, lattice-work, chainmail, and sumptuous prints, nearly all of which were fished out of Lanvin’s gene pool in one way or another.

Like any element of Art Deco-a genre that passionately divides tastes, and will with this collection, too-its structure wasn’t for shrinking violets. I like to look at iconography and feel what it is and just do something out of it that’s modern,” Sialelli explained. But we’ve never seen this dress in real life, we’ve never tried it on. For his Paris previews, Sialelli had taken out the former home of the chocolate baron Henri Menier, an hôtel particulier so odd and ornate it felt like walking into a gingerbread house. In fact, the kooky universe they’re giving him the freedom to build at Lanvin is starting to feel a lot like the early beginnings of Alessandro Michele’s multidimensional (and very lucrative) Gucci. Suffice to say Sialelli’s bosses are not dull. Lanvin is owned by Fosun International, the Chinese conglomerate with such eclectic subsidiaries as the Wolverhampton Wanderers and Cirque du Soleil. It’s good for us to federate our community there.” “And to be very pragmatic, this is the market that is going to drive growth in luxury in general.

“We can do a proper event there with hundreds of people,” Bruno Sialelli said during a preview in Paris, two weeks before he shipped his pre-styled Lanvin show to Shanghai and live-streamed it from the historic Yu Garden. Post-pandemic, staging your fashion show there is pretty much a win-win scenario. Pre-pandemic, China was the new shopping center of the world. As far as fashion is concerned, there’s beautiful irony to the fact that China was the first country to return to a sense of normalcy after the coronavirus outbreak.

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