Word: lanvine
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...Lanvin's silk-covered pearls and ethnic-inspired beads, left, are the hot accessory for summer. (Even actress Lindsay Lohan is sporting them.) Designer Alber Elbaz introduced the oversize necklaces last fall, and everyone is following suit--from Yves Saint Laurent to Marni and Prada. Get the less expensive version from Erwin Pearl erwinpearl.com or Kenneth Jay Lane qvc.com).--By Kate Betts
...says, "was so much about this English attitude, the heather and the rain, and immediately we felt that he had the DNA in his blood"), Italo Zucchelli as the menswear design director at Calvin Klein, Christophe Lemaire as creative director for Lacoste. She also placed Narciso Rodriguez and Lanvin's Alber Elbaz in their first design-director positions...
...complicated: if Moss wears it, everyone else wants to wear it too. For designers, there's really no better way to improve their image or move merchandise. Last winter Moss showed up at Manolo Blahnik's Design Museum show in London wearing a shredded Lanvin dress and sent fashionistas clamoring for anything by Alber Elbaz. At Mario Testino's exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, she wore a Balenciaga dress and a fur stole, and--poof!--Tom Ford was designing fur stoles. Last summer she turned up at a cosmetics party in a pair of Vivienne Westwood platform pumps...
Alla Verber is a woman who knows what she wants. On this hot July morning in Paris, that would be three electric-green Lanvin dresses. And no, she does not want them in rust or peach. "If you give a client too many choices, it's confusing," she says...
...lunchtime Verber will have bought some $87,000 worth of Lanvin goods (with a retail value of about $236,000). It's a sizable amount for a brand in the midst of a turnaround like Lanvin but mere peanuts to Verber, vice president of Mercury, a Moscow-based Russian retail company that has recently become known as a savior of sorts in the fashion world. Brands like Gucci, Prada and Chanel are partnering with Mercury to open outlets in Russia, and the country is one of the few bright spots in the global economic gloom of the last few seasons...