Fashion Palette of LANVIN

Colour Forecast of LANVIN Fall 2010 RTW

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Lanvin is the earliest establish French fashion brand. The brand gained fame in France and inspired the others with idea of fashion. However, after the death of the founder, Jeanne Lanvin, the brand could no longer be as well reputed as before. Before takeover by Alber Elbaz, the brand was as if stuck in hazy road, losing its direction. Being the artistic director, Elbaz brought a revolution to the brand, becoming an important leader in the decade. Therefore, my color analysis started from fall 2002 when was the time that Elbaz took over the brand.

Analyzing the color charts from fall 2002 to 2009, I found out that color such as beige, red, midnightblue and black were the usual choices. Moreover, black and beige were picked by the brand every year. Therefore, I believe that the brand will stick to these two colors in the future seasons.

Apart from the above, I spot that red is the favorite warm color of Elbaz. Except the fall of 2008, it was the prior choice of him in the other seven seasons.
In term of cool color, blue is a frequent choice. It is not only due to its wearability, but also about a historical reason. Elbaz had followed the convention of the brand, combining his ideas with the “Lanvin Blue” which was introduced by Jeanne Lanvin after she was inspired by the colorful windows paintings of church. Hence, firebrick and midnightblue are possible to appear in the fall 2010.

Darkmagenta and darkgrey are also possible colors. Although purple was not picked in fall 08 and 09, it was the usual choices in spring/summer collection. Also, it was chosen as one of the theme colors in the advertisement. Therefore, it is possible to appear in future. On the other hand, echoing to the economic downturn of this year, all pieces in the collection of fall 2009 were black and grey. Therefore, grey will possibly be the main theme color of the fall 2010. However, I suggest that magenta will also show up to refresh the grey atmosphere.

F/W Colour of LANVIN

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S/S Colour of LANVIN

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TIMELESS BLACK

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Metalic and Pastel Trend

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Pastel Colours are the trend in these few years May it still appears in the following seasons? I think, it will.
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Architectural style

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Paper dress......

Knit waer design......

S/S and the Nature

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Multi-colour is always uesd in S/S collection of many brands. Designers usually inspired by the natural environment. For example, colours from different types of flower, prints from animals' skin, etc.

MACAU MACAU MACUA

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We miss Yves Saint Laurent.

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He loves colour. He see colours in his dream.

陳刀時裝‧陳刀態度

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Today, I set on the Cheung Chun Theater and listened to a strange guy, he is CHEN DAO.

"Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not afriad to be wrong."

"Believe one's self is the key for unlocking confidence." he said.

Whether you like or dislike him, he tells us "Dream is not just a Dream".

Be white, live white.

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Red VS White, Devil VS Angle......

親切的金子係一齣值得睇嘅戲。除咗編劇，拍攝手法，效果出色外，劇中美指嘅用心更到位。金子復仇時造型經過精心安排，紅色high heel，紅色eye shadow，甚至係紅黑紋牆紙，都代表仇恨。

劇末，復仇成功嘅金子係雪景下，雙手捧住個白色方形蛋糕對女兒講:
"Be white. Live white."

In LADY VENGEANCE, red and white are theme colours.

Visual Diary

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Women‧Cigarette

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以往對它無甚好感，直到近期才發覺，煙，對女性來說其實是一種感性的道具。祝願身邊所有Smoker，身體健康，吸煙也要吸得有型格。

Light bulbs of LANVIN

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It just a dream, a romance, a psychedelico......

The Double Life of Veronique

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"Women feel things more acutely, have more premonitions, greater sensitivity, greater intuition."

Sensitivity...... hahahah...... It kills people around me.

水晶車‧Colourless

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Why should we scared by the glass floor, it's just the game of colour, visual and psychology......

To be transperant......

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有時覺得自己好似一塊Hand dyed布(係一塊white colour, transparent嘅silk!)，呀爸呀媽染一大片，老師同學又染一大片，好朋友再染一片；YouTube染一染，Ming Bao染一染，903染一染，豐富就豐富，不過唔知effect做得好唔好......

畢竟，都咁大個人，塊布我都有份染......

「不奢求好睇，只求保持transparent!」

Garbage Bag Fashion

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"It was a mediation on using waste and unloved material to hopefully create something unexpected, something a little beautiful."

Snapshot

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http://www.hkism.com/ <<<< There are some snapshot that I took before with my partner Chan Parke.

This is my pattern design assignment. I design a blouse with LANVIN style. The finished garment, however, not LANVIN but so CLUB MONACO......

Vivid world......

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"If the world were pretty enough, I'd shoot on location all the time. But the world is just not being designed with aesthetics as a priority. So I prefer to rebuild it instead of photographing the real one. What I'm tring to do is take something from real life and reconstruct it in a cinematic way."Miles Aldridge

Miles Aldridge's photographs on exhibit look even more vivid. His plays on the kitsch, iconic and normality all pushed through an acid-toned vortex and coming out an alternative colour-saturated universe have been lodged in my head more than I thought as each image jogged some editorial or another...

Window display of LANVIN

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There is a great black gated entrance at the Mount Street Lanvin store. Alber Elbaz has filled his windows with a mix of Ladies, Queens, Princesses and Miss Lanvins, all sashed up with their S/S 09 leopard print dresses with babies, pugs and tea to accompany them.

http://08289171d.blogspot.com/2009/04/vogue.html<<< MORE INFORMATIONS.

White in White

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It is better for people who have white skin to wear white ...

What is your dream shoes?

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It's time to be NUDE!!!

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Comme des Garcons

Stella McCartney

Dior

Rodarte

Jewel Tones of LANVIN Spring 2009

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The Dark Age

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The mind is dark, the atmosphere is dark, the time is dark, so clothings are dark...... how can this situation be changed?
Obama, it's your turn.....

LANVIN Fall 2009 RTW

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Starting at the dark and painful times......We should be tough as the women in the prosperous 40's.

Runway of LANVIN Fall 2009

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The hall is very dark. The runway is extremely bright. Models walking on the brightness path one by one with dark clothings. The atmosphere is silent......
This is what Elbaz felt in the heavy-laden 2009.

LANVIN Pre-Fall 2009

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Riffing on the recession at a Lanvin pre-fall presentation, Alber Elbaz argued that looking glamorous is a feminine survival instinct. He's got a point. With the economic forecast as dire as it is, we may feel glum, but who wants to look it? There was a Jazz Age decadence to looks like a Wedgwood blue tulle cloud minidress, a patchworked fur cropped jacket, and a tiered and scalloped long lace dress with a bronze crystal underlay. But this designer knows the charms of the makeshift, too; the label's signature necklaces were laced together with velvet like "pieces from your grandmother's jewelry box." And since we can't all sit out the economic downturn at a Paris café smoking cigarettes and sipping Pernod, Elbaz gave equal play to day looks: A jersey dress was draped from a single piece of fabric, and a jacket came with an elasticized belt for shape so, he explained, "you don't look fat." Which, we all know, is just as important as looking glam.

Maggie Gyllenhaal wearing a LANVIN dress

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Maggie Gyllenhaal Appears on the Golden Globe Red Carpet with a Blue animal print dress.

On the runway show, Elbaz choose the black to wear the animal print dress and it really stands out the inspiration which is coming from African.

LANVIN Spring 2009 RTW

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Ending the show with a gorgeous lineup of dresses in purple and blue fringed Lurex, crystal and knit embroidery, and random sprinklings of paillette flowers, Elbaz closed the season on a celebratory high. 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.

LANVIN Resort 2009 RTW

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LANVIN Fall 2008 RTW

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Colours are dull, but outfits are bright because of metalic fabric and crystal.

LANVIN Pre-Fall 2008

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The muted palette, mainly black and gray (with shots of navy, teal, and forest green), let the eye linger on the shapes—both sculpted and draped.

Colors that don't exist......

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一點男，一點女 - 張國榮

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4月1日，係網上見到 les hommes呢件lace shirt，令我諗起哥哥......

可能因為一屋女人都愛張國榮，即使風繼續吹時代，我還未出生，對他的認識也不淺。加上個人對有女性特質的男性特別有好感，所以就與姊姊們一起做了哥哥迷。張叔平表示:很鍾愛哥哥一點男一點女的特質，所以使替他打造了一個又一個女性化造型，see-through, lace, 珠片，羽毛，蘇格蘭裙，高踭鞋，粉紅，桃紅，鮮紅，紫紅...... 嘩! 好妖艷! 我鍾意。

好可惜哥哥既style，香港已經揾唔番...... 相近既，亦只有黃耀明......

LANVIN Spring 2008 advertisment by Hartland Villa

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LANVIN Spring 2008 advertisment by photograher Hartland Villa. Using lego as the theme to project the colour of lanvin dresses.

Tilda Swinton wearing LANVIN in Oscar 2008

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Tilda Swinton appears with a LANVIN Spring 2008 black long dress on the Oscar Red Carpet which comes with a really cool and tough style.

LANVIN Spring 2008 RTW

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Few words, indeed, are equal to describing the drama of the pleated dresses that ballooned into airborne trains in movement—one each in cobalt, green, yellow, and red—or the embellishment. Pale ostrich plumes worked their way up the front of a white chiffon sheath, puffing upward to one shoulder and tethered to the body with a weighty pearl-and-enamel pendant. Patches of crystal and feather embroidery, almost African, were worked into intensely patterned shimmy dresses fit for a modern Josephine Baker. And the color kept on exploding on the retina: magenta, teal, red, coral, purple. By the finale parade, Elbaz had covered tux dressing, togas, shirts, pencil skirts, and even some of the season's best fluid pants. When he came out to take his bow, there was a roar of applause from the audience—recognition that this triumph was Elbaz's best Lanvin collection to date, and a celebration that, at long last, someone had come up with the insight to make a collection that is about enhancing the quality of women's lives today.

Class Exercise & Window Display of LANVIN retail shop

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I love black, it comes with a cool , trendy and also timeless feeling so I choose black as the main colour of the shop. In order to get the attraction of customers, tables and the curtain in the middle of the shop is in red and pink colour.

The dark background makes the bags and shoes being more eye catching, when customers enter the shop, they may easily focus on the products. That's great!

FW 2009 (MEN)

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FW 2009 (WOMEN)

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Exaggarated shoulder !!!

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BALMAIN - Fall 2009 RTW

BALMAIN - Spring 2009 RTW

BALENCIAG - Spring 2008 RTW

Some people said fashion trend may circulate every 30 years.
I agree...... so Don't throw away your's mother's 80's large shouder pad jacket!!! The trend may keep going. Also, the bell bottom jeans.

Natalie Portman wearing a LANVIN Fall 2007 dress

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Natalie Portman appears with a LANVIN Fall 2007 Scarlet cocktail dress with ruffle decorating the neckline in the promotion of the film - The Darjeeling Limited.

LANVIN Fall 2007 RTW

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"After last season," explained Alber Elbaz, "we sat in the studio and asked ourselves, 'Where do you go after futurism?' And someone said to me, 'You want to go home.' So then I went back and started looking at Jeanne Lanvin's sketches again." 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.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2007RTW-LANVIN

LANVIN Spring 2007RTW

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Elbaz's highly specific version of futurism seemed like a comment on the corporate-versus-creative conflicts that have been scattering fashion all over the place this spring. "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."

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/S2007RTW-LANVIN

LANVIN Fall 2006 RTW

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The collection picked up Christian Dior's New Look (hip-padding), Cristobal Balenciaga's volumes (flounced tent dresses and swing-back coats), Elsa Schiaparelli's surrealism (illusion effects), and Saint Laurent's pantsuits (tuxedo dressing). That set Elbaz up for a challenge: how to modernize those shapes, and how to meld them into the empathetic, wardrobe-building style that has been his personal gift to the modern Lanvin woman.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2006RTW-LANVIN

LANVIN Spring 2006 RTW

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Who'd have guessed that Alber Elbaz, the man who bestowed soft decorative dressing on the world two years ago, would be the first to break away into a new, fiercely exciting minimalism? That was what he achieved for spring: a rigorous, couture-informed reengineering of clothes for women who spend more time striding out in the world than simpering at cocktail parties.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/S2006RTW-LANVIN

Natalie Portman in Oscar 2009

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ROBARTE pink chiffon dress with a vintage RIALTO clutch.

RODARTE, the extraordinary talent !

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Fall 2008 RTW

"Some designers have more bark than bite. But with their dramatic Fall collection, Kate and Laura Mulleavy proved they have plenty of teeth. And sharp ones."
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2008RTW-RODARTE

Fall 2009 RTW

"They are unique," said Kirsten Dunst of Kate and Laura Mulleavy, front-row at their show today. "They didn't just study fashion. You can see that. It's very emotional clothing."

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-RODARTE

Emotional Dresses - LANVIN

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LANVIN Fall 2005 RTW

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The show starts with an orange textured velvet in his familiar full-skirt look, and introduced new shapes in stricter black, including a knife-narrow version of his now classic taffeta raincoat. A sexily shaped jacket that appeared as part of black pencil skirt suit, and then in a gorgeous white panne velvet, will inspire women on the hunt for fall chic. As for Elbaz's best-selling dresses, there were plenty, ranging from a newly sober high-neck, long-sleeve black velvet number to more familiarly dainty styles in layered chiffons and plissé tulle, as well as high-waist ballerina dresses.

There are some apparently random surprises: two boldly colorful flowered dresses with mismatched floral coats. Perhaps they were indications of the way this extraordinary designer will take fashion next, and in that way, they have intriguing potential. But, like the rest of the show, they didn't quite move the label forward enough to make this season one of Elbaz's truly memorable spectaculars.

LANVIN Spring 2005 RTW

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HEY!!! This season is quite interesting!!!
1. This is a dress and skirt only collection.
2. Purple is the colour in this collection.

From the above photos of complete collection, we can see that purple play and important role in this collection. On the runway, models who wear purple may shop at the middle. Also, purple, yellow, blue are the brighter colour in this collection, they appear in numbers of dark outfit and being an attractant in LANVIN Spring 2005 RTW.

LANVIN Fall 2004 RTW

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In this season, nothing special !!! Colour just similar to the past two Fall collections. The satin, gauze, fur and crystal really make the collection comes with an elegant feeling.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2004RTW-LANVIN

LANVIN Spring 2004 RTW

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This collection calls more attention to the aesthetic decisions made about color. Scarlet, pink, yellow, cerulean, royal blue, emerald, etc. These bright and sharp colour with lustrous effect on satin fabric form a glamourous colourful painting of LANVIN.

This collection is a foreshadowing of Elbaz's colourful design in Spring 2008 and 2009 RTW.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/S2004RTW-LANVIN/

LANVIN Fall 2003 RTW

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MY FAVORE PICK!

I love this collection because I CAN' T LIVE WITHOUT BLACK! If I am a millionaier, I would buy all the black cocktail dresses!

In this collection we can see something new in Elbaz's design: Animal Print !

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2003RTW-LANVIN

LANVIN Spring 2003 RTW

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This collection has a special meaning for Alber Elbaz because it proved that he knows womens' need.

The chiffon dress with gauze and crystal of LANVIN Spring 2003 become a typical and classic design of Elbaz. Most of the actress got one for red carpet!

There are Red, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Green, Gold, Silver...... besides black, grey, white, beige and brown, more colour is used in Spring collection.

P.S. I LOVE THE BLACK WITH GREY PURPLE.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/S2003RTW-LANVIN/

LANVIN Fall 2002 RTW

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With his first collection for Lanvin, Alber Elbaz successfully walked the finest of lines between design panache and desirable, grown-up clothing.

From the neutral colour (blank, grey, white) to the earth colour (brown, green, khaki, beige),with some suprising oranga, red and magenta. Albar Elbaz using the Analogons Colour Combination and Achromatic Scheme to make his first collection be safe.

The material, however, play and important role in the collection. Dark colour fabric with silver sequin, chiffon with see-through effect, parti-coloured fur, etc. I see one thing that I never concern about: Selection of materials may affect the apperance of colours.

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2002RTW-LANVIN

Funny Elbaz !!!

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Why I choose LANVIN in this project?
Because Alber Elbaz is my favorable designer.
I just want to update my blog everyday with the things that I like.
So I will enjoy this stuff!

Class Exercise & Miss LANVIN dolls

2009-03-07T09:44:00.001-08:00

Alber Elbaz delighted and surprised us when he adorned the Lanvin Faubourg Saint-Honoré store window with miniature mannequins last year and then took it a step further to create six Miss Lanvin porcelain hand painted dolls with Taiwanese ceramics company Franz. It was a hark back to Jeanne Lanvin’s partaking in the post-war Theâtre de la Mode show which saw French couturiers showcasing their designs through miniature dolls, due to the lack of fabric. The second series of dolls from Lanvin have just been released and feature seven silhouettes from the S/S 08 Lanvin collection as well as the bridal capsule collection. Packaged in Lanvin’s signature pale blue boxe, again they will only be produced in a limited edition of 800.

WE CAN SEE THE CLASSIC COLOURS OF LANVIN FROM MISS LANVIN'S DRESSES!!!

My first try. Monochromatric Colour Scheme.

My second try. Analogous Colour Combination.

My third try. Complementry Colour. Just for fun......haha.

COLOUR SCHEME OF BURBERRY PATTERN.

Alber Elbaz By Natalie Portman

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Alber Elbaz By Natalie Portman from TIME magazine.

His time as designer at Lanvin that has earned him a seat among fashion legends. His pieces, he says, reflect the many hats a woman might wear during a single day: mother, lover, executive, partygoer. A fitting philosophy for a house that began as a millinery in 1889.

To me, he's the ultimate fashion philosopher-mentor. He says things to me like "Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend." Alber, 45, does not attribute any grandiose meaning to clothes: the transformation a woman feels when she puts on one of his dresses should originate in her rather than the cloth.

Alber often goes down to the store from his studio above it to speak to his customers or adjust the length of a skirt or the size of a hoop earring. He designs according to what he learns from his clients and so accurately intuits what will make a woman feel good in her body—and even better when swathed in an awe-inspiring dress.

鍾意Portman係因為這個殺手不太冷，因為佢既氣質，因為佢既審美眼光。係紅地毯上，佢每每比人驚喜，一條又一條既LANVIN dress，一次又一次時裝界傳媒比佢既肯定，都證明Elbaz既成功。

呢篇專訪，Portman以一個穿LANVIN既女人既角度去講Elbaz，令我更明白Elbaz既時裝哲學.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1595332_1616649,00.html

The Bow Man - Alber Elbaz

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Alber Elbaz once thought about becoming a doctor, and his approach to design is a combination of the analytical and the beautiful. He is fascinated by women — by their desires, their responsibilities, their various guises — and in each collection for Lanvin, he has sought to find a way to decode that tangle of moods.

Like a physician, Elbaz looks for remedies, a solution to any dressing dilemma. “In the end,” he explained recently, as he was designing his spring collection, “you don’t need that much. When I left New York for France, I took only two suitcases. I always construct my collections with that thought in mind.”When I design, I don’t think about a particular body part — I think about what women want and what they dream.” With that in mind, Elbaz offered some tenets of his fashion philosophy.

"People keep trying to divide designers into optimists and pessimists, but me—I'm a realist," declared Alber Elbaz. "I thought with my heart about what women need from fashion—dresses, suits, blouses, coats. Life isn't just parties and lunches."

"What I always hope is to make women feel good in their body with my designs, " Elbaz said.

“I am overweight, so I am very, very aware of what to show and what not to show, and I am sure there is a huge link with being an overweight designer and the work I do. My fantasy is to be skinny.”

p.s.當然，佢肥肥矮矮，煲呔加粗框眼鏡既趣志外型令佢既魅力大增。

Biography of Alber Elbaz

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In 1961, Alber Elbaz, an Israeli citizen, was born in Casablanca, Morocco.

In 1971, when he was 10 years old, Alber, two brothers, two sisters and their Jewish parents immigrated to Israel from Morocco.

In 1982-1986, after mandatory military service in the Israeli Defence Forces, he studied at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design (as it is known today) in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel.

In 1987, he moved to New York City, worked for two years for a manufacturer of mother-of-the-bride clothing. Eventually, he went on to work for Geoffrey Beene for seven years. He claims to have benefited appreciably from his time with Beene, influenced by Beene's rejection of trends and masterful drape and fit. "It was a very beautiful relationship... Our best dialogue was not in words," Elbaz has reminisced.

In 1997, Elbaz left Beene and, through retailer Dawn Mello, was hired by the firm of Guy Laroche. But, by the time of Elbaz's arrival, the Laroche enterprise had become overly conservative and lackluster. Even so, Elbaz was able to update the collection and somewhat enhance the image of the firm, whose activities at the time included the management of 15 boutiques and 70 license agreements worldwide. However, he departed within a year.

In 1998, he began designing ready-to-wear women's clothing for Yves Saint-Laurent, because Saint-Laurent himself wished to withdraw from his hands-on design of prêt-à-porter. In the position, Elbaz's talent was recognized, and he would have become the head designer of the house when Saint-Larent retired.

However, this was not to happen because the Gucci Group purchased YSL Rive Gauche, the ready-to-wear label, and, hence, Gucci design director Tom Ford dismissed Elbaz after 3 collections.Elbaz then began working for Krizia in Italy and designed a well-received inaugural collection, but the circumstances were not to his liking.

In August 2001, the company had been purchased by investor group Harmonie S.A., led by Mrs. Shaw-Lan Wang, a Taiwanese media magnate, who hired Elbaz. In Juen 2005, he gained the International Award, Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA).

In October 2001, after Krizia, he was appointed artistic director of Lanvin in Paris. Lanvin is the oldest extant fashion house worldwide, having been founded by Jeanne Lanvin, who began making dresses in 1909 and millinery earlier.

In 2006, Elbaz introduced new packaging for the fashion house, featuring a light forget-me-not blue color, a favorite shade which Lanvin purportedly had seen in a Fra Angelico fresco. There are shopping bags, imprinted with Paul Iribe's 1907 illustration of Lanvin and her daughter Marguerite, and new shoe boxes much like antique library files, tied with black ribbons, to emphasize the precious nature of the product.
Owing partially to the influence of Beene, Elbaz's wearable, simple and feminine clothing—similar to the sporty, casual character of Lanvin's 1920s outfits—has become embraced by the fashion press. "... Elbaz is every woman's darling. And that includes Nicole Kidman, Kate Moss, Chloé Sevigny, Sofia Coppola and a slew of rising movie names" (Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune, May 24, 2005).

In January 25th 2007 , Elbaz gained the Named Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, Paris. Also he was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World.
On October 7, 2007 Alber Elbaz received a standing ovation for his Spring-Summer 2008 collection for Lanvin.

Designers at LANVIN

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After Jeanne Lanvin dies in 1946, 6th of July, 12 designers had been the director of LANVIN in this half century.

From 2002 to now, Alber Elbaz is the artistic director of LANVIN. He plays an important role in the style of LANVIN these years.

Jeanne Lanvin - "Fusion of fashion and art"

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The painting of Fra Angelico (Italian, ca. 1390/95-1455) inspired Jeanne Lanvin and she creats the classic colour of LANVIN - "Lanvin Blue".

Also, the major colour use for the decoration in Jeanne Lanvin's home is "blue".

Jeanne Lanvin (1867-1946)

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Biography of Jeanne Lanvin - http://08222240d.blogspot.com/2009/01/123.html and http://www.lanvin.com/

WELCOME TO LANVIN !

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Cornflower Blue by designers

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Viktor & rolf - Viktor Horsting & Rolf Snoeren

Balenciaga - Nicolas Ghesquiere

Nina Ricci - Olivier Theyskens

Louis Vitton - Marc Jacobs

Chanel - Karl Lagerfeld

Christian Dior - John Galliano

Christian Lacroix

Jean Paul Gaultier

Versace - Donatella Versace

I LOVE BLACK !!!

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EXPRESS YOURSELF !!!

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It sounds that "colour" is to express oneself. Maybe, someday, I can be a colour player!!!