Lanvin (company)

Lanvin is a French fashion house founded by Jeanne Lanvin in 1889. It is the third oldest French fashion house still in operation. It was bought by the Orcofi Group in 1990 and then sold to L'Oréal in 1996. In 2001, Taiwanese media mogul, Shou-Lan Won, made Lanvin a private company again. On March 14, 2016, Bushra Jarrar was named Creative Director of Womenswear, succeeding Alber Elbaz, who had transformed the company over the previous fourteen years.

Bushra's departure was announced on July 6, 2017. She was succeeded as artistic director by Olivier Lapidus, who left the company on March 22, 2018. The men's collections have been headed by Lukas Ossendriver since 2005. Bruno Sialelli has been the head designer for both the men's and women's collections since 2019.

Lanvin made clothes for her daughter, Marie-Blanche de Polignac, who began to attract the attention of many rich people who asked her to make the same clothes for their children. Soon Lanvin began to sew dresses for women as well. Some of the most famous names in Europe were included in the clientele of her new boutique, which was located on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris. In 1909, Lanvin joined the Fashion Syndicate, which marked her official status as a couturier. The Lanvin logo was inspired by a photograph taken for Jeanne Lanvin when she attended a ball with her daughter in identical outfits in 1907.

Since 1923, the Lanvin empire included a dye factory in Nanterre. In the 1920s, Lanvin opened stores dedicated to home decor, menswear, furs, and underwear, but her most significant development was the creation of perfume in 1924. The first fragrance called My Sin, an animal aldehyde based on heliotrope, was introduced in 1925 and is considered unique to this day. It will be followed by her signature fragrance Arpège from 1927, which is said to have been inspired by her daughter's piano playing.