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Book Reviews of Lanvin
Book Review: An Exceptional Tour de Force!
Summary: 5 Stars
This volume devoted to the Haute Couture and other creative endeavour of the great Couturière, Jeanne Lanvin, is nothing less than sumptuous both in its scope and presentation. Mr. Harold Koda at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute seems to know his audience and what they desire, and I applaud him! Page after page of gorgeous images of her work in combination with exceptional text. THIS is what all volumes devoted to the work of a single Couturier and Couturière should be. If, you acquire but a single volume devoted to Haute Couture, this is the one. My only reservation and criticism would be the inclusion of the work of Alber Elbaz, chiefly, because, "Lanvin" is no longer a House of Haute Couture, and M. Albaz, has not been at the helm of this House for that long so a consideration of his creations is premature at this time. While I grasp the marketing aspect of including such, I wish that Mr. Koda could persuade such Houses to cease with such within the context of Haute Couture and volumes meant to be historical in direction. Thankfully, this volume is devoted more to Jeanne Lanvin than to M. Albaz.Book Review: Don't Miss This Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
This book makes the hair on the nape of my neck stand up. The research, the photographs, the interviews, the sketches - it's a masterpiece. If you don't have this book, run out and buy it.
Book Review: GORGEOUSLY PRETTY
Summary: 5 Stars
PRETTY can have a negative connotation....but NOT here. Truly PRETTY PRETTY illustrations and clothes. Lanvin clearly very different from the other greats. Her clothes are,well, dare I say PRETTY in the very best sense. Lots of pics and a real delight to see her work in depth. I can't speak to the text because I buy books for the pics. Also, very little on the current designer. Almost all the book on the original Lanvin...which is to my liking. I must say some of the 'new guys' stuff is fun too though.Book Review: LANVIN
Summary: 3 Stars
THIS BOOK IS WELL RESEARCHED HOWEVER COMPARED TO SOME OF THE OTHER SIMULAR BOOKS I WAS A BIT DISAPOINTED IN IT. IT NEVER TOLD OF CASTILLO AND MYRL LANVIN ETC.Book Review: Useful but incomplete monograph on the house of Lanvin
Summary: 3 Stars
This book is the best resource available regarding the original designs of Jeanne Lanvin, but it is an absolute travesty that the author chose not to include any mention of the house's creative output from the time of Lanvin's death in 1946 until the moment Alber Elbaz took the helm in 2002 almost fifty years later (with a whopping sixty pages devoted to the current designer). Granted Elbaz is a very talented man, but so were his predecessors Antonio del Castillo, Jules-Francois Crahay, and Claude Montana, and I fully expected them to be represented in this volume. For the fashion enthusiast, this book is certainly worth buying, but unless the omissions are corrected in a later volume it is manifestly an incomplete history of the house of Lanvin. You can find good examples of Crahay's designs for Lanvin in the book _Rare Bird of Fashion_, but I know of no serious scholarship regarding Antonio del Castillo's body of work, and this is a shame. This book is an indispensable addition to any library of the history of fashion, but it has absolutely missed an opportunity to showcase the creativity of Lanvin's successors / Elbaz's predecessors.
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