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...Christopher Farr’s Red Meander does the same with the mazelike design by Bauhaus artist Anni Albers (produced in an edition of 10), while Nordic Knots brings Scandinavian minimalism to the pile, creating...
...Fashion hasn’t stopped since: Alber Elbaz habitually let unfinished hems poetically unravel in his work for Lanvin; Karl Lagerfeld created a 2011 Chanel collection with jackets that appeared moth-eaten;...
...Sarah Milroy, the show’s curator, believes that the strongest similarity between the two women is in their way of thinking....
...Stefano Pilati left Italy’s Ermenegildo Zegna and Alber Elbaz left Lanvin, while Calvin Klein said goodbye to Francisco Costa and Italo Zucchelli less than two weeks ago....
...Bauhaus faculty members like Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer and Josef Albers conquered the US with their gospel. The Nazi crackdown sent a whole generation of female photographers into diaspora....
...So is Alber Elbaz, the former Lanvin designer who shares the same ultra-feminine aesthetic — and carriage — as Dior’s founding father....
...Just consider the amount of “likes” for Alber Elbaz’s Lanvin campaign videos, in which he is often willing to make himself look silly....
...Sarah Burton) one that hasn’t been mentioned but has, I discovered, actually been called, is perhaps the most surprising of all: Azzedine Alaia....
...And whether or not anyone believes Victoria Beckham’s protestations that OK, she doesn’t draw (who does nowadays, except maybe Alber Elbaz?)...
...Either way, as with Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen and the royal wedding, getting the Moss marriage will be a huge coup for a designer, with an enormous associated ka-ching factor....
...Sarah Bailey, a course director at the London College of Fashion, says: “The experience becomes a lot more important in terms of retail strategy and one of the challenges for stores is to bring consumers...
...And at Lanvin, designer Alber Elbaz took tribalism to a very personal, structural level, both literally and aesthetically....
...The prime minister himself would have proved welcome at another big LFW party, this one hosted by Alber Elbaz, Lanvin’s creative director....
...“Chinoiserie is all about indulgent fantasies of China as a dream-like country, where everything is strange, different, highly luxurious and thrilling,” explains Dr Sarah Cheang....
...As was the patronage of Paris stage stars Réjane and Sarah Bernhardt, dancer Isadora Duncan and Margot Asquith, the fashion-forward wife of Henry Asquith, the British prime minister....
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