lanvin for h&m

[Faust]

Probably he now hopes that KL might retire any time soon...

Are you kidding? Lagerfeld is the vampire and fashion is his blood - that's what keeps him alive.

[Shucks]

Are you kidding? Lagerfeld is the vampire and fashion is his blood - that's what keeps him alive.

like armani. (incidentally, his staff are extremely frustrated by his combination of micro-management and good health. i've heard them say as much, those vultures... )

[ES3K]

Uh I missed this one but it fits into the scheme (sorry if already posted somewhere): in november last year Madame Wang teamed up with some German interweb entrepreneur who bought 12.5% of Lanvin.

http://www.fashionfunhouseemporium.com/Lanvins-Extra-Capital-Does-Mean-More-Diffusion-Lines-6926050

Having in mind the "cheap" blazers... the relaunched website... now H&M... it all makes sense...

...at least:

Didn't Bogart say "We'll always have Hermès!"? I tend to agree.

[ronin]

That video reminds me of those body language 101 classes I had. I wouldn't hire him to advertise something, that's for sure.
The first thing I did when I read about this collaboration was to re-read that style.com article that Faust posted here a few months ago. Because I thought that it didn't match what he said in the interview. But come to think about it, he did state that financial independance can be tough to deal with and was very evasive when the question of fast-fashion collaboration arised. Commercially speaking this may be a safe bet, ES3K's link sums up Lanvin to "effortless parisian chic" and this is something I hear from many clothing-illiterate people around me (no condescendency, I just mean people who like the idea of being fashionable and value the brand system over anything).

[Shucks]

somebody make the bad man stop

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/...anvin_for.html

[eat me]

^ looks out of shape. So far. However the pic is so small, you can barely see anything.

[hurricane08]

This collab will have great success,i can feel it seeing the pictures...
The only thing that Mr.Albez didn't mention is why should a woman continue buying lanvin dresses?

-for less money she can afford an h&m dress in the same quality as Elbaz mentioned(i couldn't see the difference with the originals ...)
-just to live a drama when a college girl wears the same outfit ?

[Shucks]

^ looks out of shape. So far. However the pic is so small, you can barely see anything.

but you know what the trainwreck will end up looking like.

"The full line includes clothes, jewelry, hats, shades, shoes, and lipstick"

jesus h christ.

[eat me]

I'm thinking maybe I should snap some of this stuff up to sell off eBay later? Hmm...

[whitney]

This collab will have great success,i can feel it seeing the pictures...
The only thing that Mr.Albez didn't mention is why should a woman continue buying lanvin dresses?

-for less money she can afford an h&m dress in the same quality as Elbaz mentioned(i couldn't see the difference with the originals ...)
-just to live a drama when a college girl wears the same outfit ?

if the quality is 100% same--which i doubt but i've eaten crow before--its only a collab and limited--the idea of cinderellas lining up for a chance to snag a piece of designer good, that actually is designed such and made such save a little H&M label tagged along--i dunno, isn't so disgusting. depends on how much was produced but seeing as how i didn't line up for CDG the first day and it wasn't there the next..if lanvins h&m production numbers follow it, it wouldn't be so bad.

[eat me]

it can't possibly be the same quality. I mean, come on.

[Fade to Black]

I dunno; Kunk mentioned a few Lanvin shirts calling it a day after 3 or so wears. If you can buy an L&M shirt and wear it for a week straight...

[hurricane08]

You're right whitney, but after seeing the pics I'm starting to believe that Elbaz was right ,the result is pretty impressive and i think it will be difficult (at least for me) to realize if it's a lanvin dress or an h&mxlanvin late in the evening or in a fashion blog.

[whitney]

that's true that far away you probably can't tell as much as if you were there next to that person..or if you were wearing it..as much as some of h&m stuff is made to look cute/appealing/etc from afar on display, once I get close and once I try it on it's another story. I like garments that fit and feels good as it looks

I don't think those who buy lanvin on a regular would care to line up, and like eat me I very much think it will be of the same quality..

but I still wanna see it in person, even though I don't plan on buying..I'm curious to see how the stitching, the cut, and the material..too bad I probably won't because I hate lining up..

[Faust]

You're right whitney, but after seeing the pics I'm starting to believe that Elbaz was right ,the result is pretty impressive and i think it will be difficult (at least for me) to realize if it's a lanvin dress or an h&mxlanvin late in the evening or in a fashion blog.

I get CB2 catalogs at home. Every time I am tempted, I go into a CB2 store, I feel duped. It's such shit. But I also feel respect for the photographer who took those shots for the catalog. One of the greatest achievements of commercial photography is to make shit look like candy.