12.18.2011

LANVIN DEMONSTRATES SAINT-EXUPERY

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

This may have been three years ago, but it goes to show the enduring genius of Alber Elbaz.  In a window: a mannequin, a box, a fan and a dress create dynamic movement, turning a window into a cinema screen - interpreting the slightly hackneyed idea of diaphanous fabric caught in a breeze into a modern poem.