by Très Bien Store

Get Romantic with Lanvin’s Collection at Paris Style Week Spring/Summer 2011

Gone with the wind, the dreamy, oh-so-lovely creations by Alber Elbaz’s for Lanvin basically took the onlookers breath away. Models dressed in romantic dresses with contemporary appear ambled down the ramp. And then it was clear why Alber Elbaz was quoted as saying, “It’s all from dreams, from the soul.”

The Lanvin show had fitted bodices teamed with sinuous flowing skirts in soft colours. But it wasn’t just pallid hues that ruled the ramp, Lanvin dresses later moved to dark colours, like his day-to-evening clothes. Shades of jhaki, black, blue, red to pink, name it and he has it. The designer also covered the extended and the quick of dresses, minimalistic nevertheless exotic.

The response to the collection was overwhelming, International Herald Tribune writes, “Walked a magisterial line among the industrial and the romantic, as although the designer Alber Elbaz have been dressing women for the dichotomy that is their modern lives.” The Elbaz’s trademark draping won hearts when the 4 models in finale parade walked in a single-shoulder gowns in warm blue hues and in animal-printed chiffons such as robes, halter-necks and trousers produced of very same fabric taut at the ankle.

The style drama got complete with butterfly-shaped buckles in belts chokers. In accessories, a single couldn’t take off eyes from the brown belts and mini de-glam sling bags.

With swirly, sheer align dresses, tank outfits, loosen extended wide-neck shirts teamed with leggings to kaftan inspired gowns, brief skirts and sleeveless frocks with metallic embellishments, futuristic bulked-up tops, glamorous monokinis, Lanvin gave a modern day lady a purpose to dress with his pret-a-porter collection.

That”s why Vogue writes, “One of these dynamic moments in which Alber Elbaz has it all lined up: the woman, the dress, the modernity, the gasp-inspiring glamour.”

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