Lanvin Spring/Summer 2017 : Bouchra Jarrar’s show at the heart of Paris and the new Lanvin interpretation.

It was a Bouchra Jarrar’s  first  Lanvin show. She closed her own label to accept the creative directorship, and has done her research on the woman who founded the house, unearthing the fact that Jeanne Lanvin predated Coco Chanel and and all the other female couturiers of the 20’s and 30’s.What can we tell about new Lanvin, yes, new, because   the incredible house-centric codes of Alber Elbaz’s tenure seemingly be brushed under the carpet and Lanvin is now starting on a new journey. Bouchra has brought those signatures to Lanvin and playing within the boundaries of „veiling and unveiling“, Bouchra Jarrar announced in the show notes that she was embarking on an ongoing narrative around „the exchange of masculinity and femininity.“  But it is not new for Jarrar. In many looks we can recognize the Bouchra’s  previuos creations, which she did for her own label, for example she played with transparencies in her S/S 2016 haute couture collection.  Jarrar’s MUST pieces were  recognizable , there were  biker jackets and gilets and the lond draped dresses which in her own collections always looked elegant and more luxurious. But we must give Bouchra Jarrar time, the world of ready-to-wear collections is a new land for her.
Lanvin Spring/Summer 2017 collection
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Breaking News : Bouchra Jarrar is a new artistic director of Lanvin womenwear collections

It is a woman  at the helm of the house Jeanne Lanvin built. On Friday morning, 11.03.2016, the Lanvin chief executive Michèle Huiban confirmed that Bouchra Jarrar had been named artistic director of Lanvin women’s collections. She begins Monday.Lanvin is the oldest couture house continually in existence in Paris.
Bouchra Jarrar, 45, graduated from Paris’ Duperré School of Applied Arts in 1994. After a two-year tenure designing Jean-Paul Gaultier’s licensed jewellery collection, she joined Balenciaga under Josephus Thimister, then-artistic director at the house, and later served as studio director under Nicolas Ghesquiére. She earned the official Haute Couture   appellation in 2013. In 2015 French venture capital firm Mode et Finance took a minority investment in Jarrar’s Label, she retains a 74 percent holding in the company.
From Bouchra Jarrar’s  Autumn/Winter 2015-16 and Spring/Summer 2016 Haute Couture collections

 

 Lanvin womenswear  Autumn/Winter 2016- 2017 collection made by Team.