Jeanne Lanvin, the great brand handbag designer that changed the world
How Jeanne Lanvin, the great brand handbag designer that changed the world
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The waisted, full skirted dress was a speciality of Jeanne Lavin, as the mannequin and the sketches on the floor attest.
Famous for her frocks that recalled earlier times, Madame Lavin promoted romantic evening handbag collection when other couturiers such as Vionnet,
Chanel and Jean Patou were modernizing with their vertical aesthetic.
Open her maison de couture just before the First World War, Lavin was already fifty one when the war ended Rather Lavin was already fifty one when the war ended.
Rather than initiate revolutionary trends, she clung to that era designing on the lines of the full set of evening handbag of 1915-16 with only slight a adjustments.
Madame Lanvin was also famous for her mother/daughter outfits and for introducing, in 1926, a line of men bags.
The house changed hands several times after being taken over by L’Oreal in the 1960s. It is the oldest fashion house in operation and continues to flourish into the twenty first century with the appointment of Alber Elbaz as creative director in 2001.