Lanvin slips into a new mood as Peter Copping mines Jeanne Lanvin’s legacy for something quieter, stranger, and deeply feminine—an echo of Venice, memory, and mother-daughter myth rewritten for now.
I always loved the history of Lanvin with their “mother-and-daughter” approach with clothes for women and children conceived as a shared wardrobe. Many of the most influential houses were founded by visionary women, but Lanvin is the oldest operating French couture house. Founded in Paris in 1889 by Jeanne Lanvin, one of the earliest female pioneers of haute couture, the house grew in large part by the intimate bond between Jeanne and her daughter who helped shape the codes.
Today, Lanvin is under the creative direction of Peter Copping, appointed in 2024, whose approach centers on reactivating Jeanne Lanvin’s archive with a modern sensibility. The renewed clarity and respect for the house’s heritage, full of female narrative, is making a promising new chapter for the house.
Lanvin’s Autumn 2026 collection draws inspiration from a formative journey Jeanne Lanvin took to Venice in the 1920s with her niece Marianne, reimagined today by Copping. Revisiting the places Jeanne once explored, Copping reflects her enduring curiosity and her rare ability to find beauty in everyday life. The collection expresses this philosophy through refined, sculptural silhouettes that balance softness and structure: architectural collars, enveloping coats, compact knitwear, and fluid evening pieces adorned with shimmering embellishments. Murano-inspired prints reference Venetian glassmaking, while a restrained palette of greys is energized by deep Venetian reds and subtle flashes of the house’s new Lanvin Blue.
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Credits:
Photographer: Chaumont–Zaerpour
Stylist: Leopold Duchemin
Models: Xiaohan Chen, Sihana Shalaj
Hair: Tom Wright
Make-up: Stephanie Kunz
Images courtesy by Lanvin
