LANVIN: Past-to-Present Silhouette for Fall 2022 at the Paris Fashion Week Runway

Lanvin led by Bruno Sialelli delivered a past-to-present silhouette for Fall 2022 at the Paris Fashion Week runway and here are some highlights!

“I love time patterns. I love inspecting that idea. Jeanne Lanvin was obsessed with Egypt. We have an image of her on a camel in front of the Cheops pyramid,” Sialelli said.

“From Cecil B. DeMille to sci-fi movies like Dune or Stargate, there’s something in Egypt that feels so graphic and modern and futuristic,” he said. Denis Villeneuve’s interpretation of Dune from last year has imprinted itself on a lot of designer minds this season, and its ancient-futuristic scenography and costume design were detectable across Sialelli’s silhouettes, surface decoration, and the sphinx prints he emblazoned on tops. For all his sumptuous adornment, girlified robes de style, and “carnal flower” ruffles on dresses, his time travels—and the parallels he identified—were most compelling when the devil was in the detail.

Cases in point: the aforementioned jumpsuits, which served a contemporary reduction of glamour dressing rather than an intensification of the same idea; a men’s overcoat that looked perfectly classic from the front but had been infused with the memory of a bustier on the back, elegantly built into its structure; or another men’s overcoat in beige jersey with gold crushed velvet side and sleeve panels that created an optical illusion, opulent yet controlled. – Vogue