Robe de Style
Design House House of Lanvin French
Designer Jeanne Lanvin French
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In the early 1910s, Jeanne Lanvin began designing full-skirted gowns that would come to be known in the 1920s as robes de style. She considered the look—with its panniered form that evokes eighteenth-century elegance—feminine, romantic, and universally becoming. Turning to delicate fabrics for a more modern effect, Lanvin showed variations of the robe de style in her collections through the 1930s. Like eighteenth-century marchandes de modes, fashion merchants who designed novel decorative trimmings for gowns whose form changed little from year to year, Lanvin offered the robe de style with an inventive array of embellishments.
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