Lanvin has settled into a new home - the Hôtel Botterel de Quintin, an 18th-century mansion in Paris's 10th arrondissement. Its oval reception room, marble floors, and frescoes now frame artistic director Peter Copping's pre-spring 2027 collection, a study in the lean, soigné elegance that defined both the house and its guiding spirit, interior designer Andrée Putman. But for a lingerie historian, Putman's influence whispers through more than tailoring. Her signature white shirts and black suits, so clean and graphic, recall the structured foundation garments of the 1920s - the very decade when Jeanne Lanvin's famous bathroom, now at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, inspired Putman's Air France Concorde interiors. Copping discovered that Putman owned an Art Deco desk once belonging to Lanvin, linking two women who understood the power of a disciplined silhouette. The collection's slender dresses with slanted hemlines, waist-cinched jackets, and draped jersey gowns echo the corsetry and bias cuts that defined lingerie's golden age. Even the pea coats and pleated knit skirts nod to the undergarments that shaped the flapper's line - a conservative chic with enough drama to command a room, or a Concorde. At a house founded in 1889 by a milliner turned couturière, Copping reminds us that every great outfit begins with what lies beneath.
Originally reported by WWD