Dress (Robe de Style), ca. 1926
House of Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin
silk
metmuseum.org
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And I am nothing of a builder, but here I dreamt I was an architect
And I built this balustrade to keep you home, to keep you safe from the outside world
Dress, Afternoon, ca. 1927
House of Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin
silk, metallic thread
metmuseum.org
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And I am nothing of a builder, but here I dreamt I was an architect
And I built this balustrade to keep you home, to keep you safe from the outside world
Dress (Robe de Style), 1922
House of Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin
silk, metal, glass
metmuseum.org
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And I am nothing of a builder, but here I dreamt I was an architect
And I built this balustrade to keep you home, to keep you safe from the outside world
Dress (Robe de Style), Evening, 1922
House of Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin
silk, glass, metallic thread
metmuseum.org
__________________
And I am nothing of a builder, but here I dreamt I was an architect
And I built this balustrade to keep you home, to keep you safe from the outside world
Dress (Robe de Style), 1922
House of Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin
silk, glass, metal
metmuseum.org
__________________
And I am nothing of a builder, but here I dreamt I was an architect
And I built this balustrade to keep you home, to keep you safe from the outside world
Dress (Robe de Style), spring/summer 1924
House of Lanvin
Jeanne Lanvin
silk, metallic thread, glass
metmuseum.org
__________________
And I am nothing of a builder, but here I dreamt I was an architect
And I built this balustrade to keep you home, to keep you safe from the outside world
jeanne lanvin's collection of impressionist paintings is being auctioned at christies on dec 1. some very nice ones. numerous renoirs, vuillards, degas' etc
From Couture: The Great Fashion Designers by Caroline Rennolds Milbank
Captions, from left to right:
1. Typical Lanvin ribbons on a Twenties robe de style
2. Gilda Gray photographed in a Lanvin picture dress before a Drian screen.
3. Twenties cloche from Lanvin.
4. A mother's dress and daughter's dress [1924-1925].
5. Representative Lanvin afternoon dresses trimmed with couched thread embroideries, ca. 1917.
6. Silver wedding dress designed for the Princesse d'Alcantra in 1936.
7. Lanvin evening dresses showing characteristic use of line stitching.
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Last edited by flyme2themoon; 19-06-2009 at 02:56 AM.
Fantastic clothes.
I was wondering - who first made popular that sort of billowing torso that only appears in the very first picture in this thread?
It was fashionable around the 1910s I think. The sort of dress the Tsarina and Queen Mary were seen wearing with a string of pearls.