Recently in Lanvin Category

I finally received pictures of the new Miss Lanvin porcelain dolls created based on Lanvin's Spring/Summer and Resort 2010 collections. My first impression? Quite frankly, I find these dolls rather hideous-looking. One of them reminds me of a Chinese vampire rising from the dead. Another makes me think of a drunk punk-rock transvestite striding down Hollywood Boulevard.

To begin to appreciate this series of dolls, which look rather different from the previous three series, we first need to look at Lanvin's Spring 2010 ad campaign shot by Steven Meisel. The ads featured Jamie Bochert contorting her body in all sorts of awkward positions as she rushed down a corridor in the New York studio, as if to drive home the point that Lanvin's creative director, Alber Elbaz, designs clothes for real women - busy, sophisticated high achievers with a shitload of money (to be able to afford his dresses).

Here's how each doll looks:

 

  

These dolls, in limited editions of 800, will be launched in Singapore in late October 2010 in Takashimaya, in time for Christmas. Each retails for $620. My bet is on Doll #23, the bride in shades in a gown from the Resort 2010 collection, as well as Doll #25, a Bochert look-a-like in a drapey yellow dress with encrusted gold sequin.

Hayden sent me some of the pictures he took of Lanvin's window display last November. At that time, we had just launched Jean Boggio for Franz in Takashimaya Department Store and Lanvin's window display was also due for a change. So we thought it'll be quite interesting to have some Jean Boggio's pieces in the window display since both labels are French.

The outcome was something I really liked. The window display became sorta like a continuation of Lanvin's Spring Summer 2008 ad campaign featuring Olga Sherer as the queen of elves in the fairies' world. We got the porcelain standing lamp (S$2,500) from the Fairy collection, the SUD and Nord chairs (S$4,500) from the Extraordinary Garden collection, and the Art Deco hallway table (S$10,500). These all-white furniture pieces were stunning yet they did not draw the attention away from Lanvin's apparel and accessories.

The Lanvin boutique is located at #02-47 Wisma Atria.

A chi-chi dog-walking socialite in an electric blue ruffled dress became the bestselling Miss Lanvin doll from the Spring 2008 collection. She was the first of seven hand-painted dolls whose limited edition of 800 got completed.

Our last Miss Lanvin 10 was sold off on June 7, 2009. You may still be able to find this doll on display at the Lanvin boutique in Wisma Atria but it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to purchase it as the boutique keeps the full set of 7 dolls with the same serial number.

The next doll whose limited edition's gonna get completed should be Miss Lanvin 13. She is a blushing bride in a mini-tiered dress with a blown-away veil; the exact same dress worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the movie Sex and the City.

Currently Miss Lanvin 13 is sold out but new stocks will arrive towards the end of July 2009. To make a pre-order, you may visit the Lanvin boutique at Wisma Atria or Franz Collection counter at Basement 1, Takashimaya Department Store.