Sunday, October 2, 2011

Lanvin "The Strength-Desire"

J’♥ Lanvin...Confirmed a1000 times fact!  What you are about to see is my favorite Lanvin Ready to Wear Collection, I love the monochrome tailored separates, I adore the bulky shoulder padding, am a fan of oversized chokers & Wings, pencil skirts and elongated tuxedo jackets!  the whole story! Have a look...Paris SS2012
When asked about his inspiration, Alber Elbaz insists that by the time he's subjected it to his design process, there is almost nothing recognizable left of the story with which he starts each new collection. Before the show, he mentioned he had in mind an angel in hell, but as he drew and drew, the angel returned to earth. Still, if you let your mind go, you could imagine that the snakes coiled in appliqué across a dress or in a print down a pant leg or the whole ambiance of the show were echoes of Down There. The shoulders that gave the collection its epic silhouette could be the traces of wings. 

Lanvin has always been about The Dress, but this time, Elbaz tackled tops and bottoms. One of the challenges he set himself was quite typical: How can a tracksuit work for evening? That's why he mixed the show up, daywear and dressier stuff intermingled. It created an urgent, unfinished, spontaneous mood, which was amplified by dresses that had ribbons or pleats pinned to them.
Strength of the show were those shoulders, which he was quick to point out had nothing to do with eighties padded power dressing. "Power you can buy in a bank," he said. "I prefer strength." Against which he paraded sheer tulle dresses that conveyed a nothing-to-hide vulnerability, as well as plenty of embellishments with sequins, beading, oversized crosses and gold chokers. Oppositions are fundamental to Elbaz, the most elementary being the reality of clothes versus the dream of fashion. He's always managed to bridge the gap by making things that women desire. Here, the desire was more palpable than ever. And helping that happen was Elbaz's conviction that "modernity is beauty.
Pls.Pls.Check the Runway show it will put you big time in the mood of the collection...


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