Pre-Alber Elbaz
(Lanvin spring/summer 2000) (Lanvin fall/winter 2000-01)
(Lanvin Fall/Winter 2001-02)
Alber's first show (with Lanvin)
Fall/Winter 2002-03
"With his first collection for Lanvin, Alber Elbaz successfully walked the finest of lines between design panache and desirable, grown-up clothes. Leaving a chic margin of raw edge on the most luxurious of fabrics, and cutting a beautiful compromise between the fierce and the feminine, he pulled off a feat of styling that augurs well for the future. "
Spring/Summer 2003
"Bouquets are due Alber Elbaz for excellent taste and innovative design aimed directly at the sophisticated women of the world. His spring collection for Lanvin was a rare vision of luxurious dressing, balancing luster with rawness in a grown-up, wearable way. "
"As a collection, Lanvin was a highly considered—and considerate—piece of work, executed with an impressive degree of respect for real women."
Fall/Winter 2003-04
"Alber Elbaz, at Lanvin, is one of the few capable of pushing delicate classicism toward an inspiring new edge."
Spring/Summer 2004
"His particular focus for Lanvin was seamless draping, possibly the trickiest of all technical challenges. Elbaz also grasped at the slippery subject of slinky, thirties-era glamour—something that has emerged as a preoccupation of the season. Some of it worked, but not on every level."
Fall/Winter 2004-05
Spring/Summer 2004
Fall/Winter 2004-05
Spring/Summer 2005
Fall/Winter 2005-06
Spring/Summer 2006
Fall/Winter 2006-07
Spring/Summer 2007
Fall/Winter 2007-08
Spring/Summer 2008
Pre-Fall 2008
Fall/Winter 2008-09
Resort 2009
Spring/Summer 2009
Pre-Fall 2009
Fall/Winter 2009-10
Resort 2010
Spring 2010
Pre-Fall 2010
Fall/Winter 2010-11
Resort 2011
Spring/Summer 2011
"I'm not a cool designer, and Lanvin is not a cool brand," Alber Elbaz insisted with his typical self-deprecation at the end of yet another standout show. Yeah sure, Alber, and the sun won't rise tomorrow morning. But if he insisted on questioning his own coolness, there was at least no way Elbaz could challenge the clarity and intelligence of a collection that proposed a soup-to-nuts wardrobe (there were even nylon raincoats, for God's sake) of unimpeachably modern, urban chic. Exhibit 1: the girl-on-the-go athleticism of second-skin dresses and suits paired with flats. Exhibit 2: the ludicrous amounts of glamour with which Elbaz managed to swathe that prosaic proposition."
