Bowling Lanvin JL

Lanvin is famous for its wonderful dresses and the iconic sneakers. Alber Elbaz shows every season very awesome pieces and he is really good in making accessories. I believe that Lanvin shoes are always one of the most desirable accessory that women want. Speaking about bags, Lanvin makes nice ones that, however, are not so good to be classified as "it-bags" or must have: these bags, with the same prices of other brands, are cool but you know are different from like a CLASSIC Prada, YSL or Bottega Veneta handbag. BTW, Alber Elbaz and so Lanvin decided to change this thing. For this spring Lanvin made a daybag called Bowling JL that will surely be a must have. The bag is available in three sizes and in luxurious material such as python and smooth calf. 

What I love of this bag is its couture detail (The JL initial embroidered on the leather) and the fact that finally even Lanvin is going to have its own it-bag which can really be in competition with other bags such as PS1 or maybe even Kelly. 

The bag is already available on LuisaViaRoma.

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Posted in Alber Elbaz , bags , Bowling Jl , handbags , Lanvin , s/s 2012

Capes are always... trendy!

Capes are always chic. During f/w 2010 a lot of designers showed them and now the trend came back thanks to Alexander Wang, Valli, Burberry and Pilati which dedicated some outfit to the capes.  Alexander Wang used the cape to revision his own urban style and capes give to it a glamourous touch that sometimes is lost by a too urban aesthetic. Saint Laurent, Pilati, developed an absolutely new model maybe the chicest cape ever seen that is very very elegant. Burberry, Bailey, showed a transparent cape with black details that during rainy days would be the best choice. Azzaro added some fur to give a personal touch to the cape. Elbaz for Lanvin showed a very complex and sophisticated model  in a nice beige with a nice detail just on the neck: very easy, almost minimalistic, but with the characteristic Lanvin silhouette. Valli didn't show capes but he just use the characteristic shape of capes to "cover" the upper part of the dresses. Owens has a very unique style that allows him to mix his own metropolitan vision of the world with the chic appeal of Paris.

In conclusion capes are still one of the collect trends and I absolutely love them!

Alexander Wang

Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent

Alexander McQueen

Azzaro

Burberry Prorsum

Rick Owens

Lanvin

Images by: 
Vogue Italia 
Net-a-Porter

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Posted in Alber Elbaz , Alexander McQueen , Alexander Wang , Azzaro , Burberry Prorsum , Capes , f/w 2011 , Lanvin , Rick Owens , Yves Saint Laurent

Fall trends...floreal prints!

In these days in Milan there is a very sunny weather and it's like we are still in summer (even if fall started yet). In Paris the designers are showing their s/s 2012 collection (as it happened in NY, London and MiIlan), so everywhere we see summer clothes and most of us are still wearing them. By the way, in the shops there are the f/w winter collections and now we should focus and think about this winter. For this reason I decided to write about this trend that is a fall one (I chose just pics from f/w 2011) but that is a MUST for the spring (I think that everyone thinks to flower speaking about summer even if I'm so bored when I see flower in s/s shows!).

Images via:
Vogue
LuisaViaRoma

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Posted in Alber Elbaz , dresses , Emilio Pucci , Erdem , Erdem Moralioglu , f/w 2011 , Giambattista Valli , Givenchy , just cavalli , Lanvin , Peter Dundas , prints , Riccardo Tisci , Roberto Cavalli , see by chloè

Transparences....again?!

Transparences and PVC had a great diffusion, one of the chicest trend, in the s/s 2010. Prada is the most important brand that interpretated in the most beautiful and wearable way this trend. In the past was Chanel to create a "avant garde" and conceptual version of a bag. This bag, that belong to the f/w 2009, wasn't sold but a lot of magazines and blogs talked about it.

In this spring we see a lot of examples about this theme. Scognamiglio create a wonderful dress, with his caracteristic volumes, that it's not transparent but is made in PVC  and has some transparences in the right points. Commes des Garçons creates a nice jacket all transparent, the same "concept" is repurposed by Christopher Bailey for Burberry Prorsum for the following winter: a transparent with some black details jacket. Chloè made some amazing shoes, too. In this case, even if the aesthethic is really beautiful, there is the big risk of condensation especially in spring or in the rainy days. 

Lanvin and Chanel use transparences in the heels and make a nice model that is perfectly wearable and trandy. However, I believe that the most wearable, commercial and fashion concept is the Dolce and Gabbana Miss Sicily bag, that is a well done product because it doesn't leave all exposed. In particular there is a transparent but is make softer with the macramè lace and the things that are inside the bag are not all showed  to the indiscretion of other people.

I believe a lot in this trend, because it's so fresh and perfect for spring season even if I hope that the progresses of science would help to develop "new materials" which can be transparent and avoiding, at the same time, the problem of condensation.

Images and shop on-line:
Net-a-Porter (Chloè)
Colette (CDG)
LuisaViaRoma (Lanvin and Dolce&Gabbana)
Chanel 
Vogue (Prada and Scognamiglio)

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Posted in Alber Elbaz , Chloè , Commes des garçons , Dolce and Gabbana , Francesco Scognamiglio , Hannah MacGibbon , Lanvin , Miuccia Prada , Rei Kawakubo

Lanvin...strong women!

This is not an "amazing campaign" in the classic meaning of these words. In fact, I think that is something not so new and not so "cool". So, what did I like of these pics?

The perfect representation of the "Lanvin philosophy". Here the models were shooted like during a fight and the sexual energy of the pics is clear. The dresses, the make up and hair style and the bakcground is so Lanvin that I think that this is the most clear explanation of the main "idea" on which is founded the actual style of Lanvin. A strong, warrior, woman who loves to be sexy and glamourous in the same time. This is the Lanvin woman and the style of Elbaz, too.

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Posted in Adv , Alber Elbaz , campaigns , Lanvin , s/s 2011

Lanvin....greek goddess!

This dress is an amazing gabardine and satin washed minidress from the s/s 2011 of Lanvin. Lanvin takes a lot of inspirations from the ancient goddess (obviously, I'm referring not to the "divinities" but to their sculptures...). The drapes, the silhouette, the absence of big volumes or the exagerations of volumes, strong women: this is  a summary of the main features of the "Lanvin woman". So this dress is a bit strange for its colors and initially it could seem a bit strange, unconventional, maybe ugly...But then it is addictive. You want it, you need it, all yur attention is captured by the leather belt, then by the satin asimmetrical detail and then by the minidress for its aestethic. So, I can say that this is the most representatvie dress of the Lanvin essence, Elbaz vision of fashion.

Images and shop on-line:
LuisaViaRoma

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Posted in Alber Elbaz , dresses , Lanvin , LuisaViaRoma , s/s 2011