Best of Lanvin Spring 2012 | Paris Fashion Week Spring 2012
Designer Alber Elbaz shows his Spring 2012 collection for French fashion house Lanvin during Paris Fashion Week.
A model walks the runway at the Lanvin Spring 2012 show during Paris Fashion Week at Jardin des Tuileries on September 30, 2011 in Paris, France.
Photograph by: Pascal Le Segretain, Getty Images
Photograph by: Pascal Le Segretain, Getty Images
Designer Alber Elbaz shows his Spring 2012 collection for French fashion house Lanvin during Paris Fashion Week.
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. Today's effort was a good example.
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 were echoes of Down There.
The shoulders that gave the collection its epic silhouette could be the vestiges of wings. And when Karlie Kloss froze at the end of the catwalk in a halo of orange light? Case rests.
By Tim Blanks
Photo credits: Yannis Vlamos/GoRunway.com
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. Today's effort was a good example.
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 were echoes of Down There.
The shoulders that gave the collection its epic silhouette could be the vestiges of wings. And when Karlie Kloss froze at the end of the catwalk in a halo of orange light? Case rests.
By Tim Blanks
Photo credits: Yannis Vlamos/GoRunway.com