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COUTUREAuth LANVIN Heavy Silver Metal Sequin Dress sM

COUTUREAuth LANVIN Heavy Silver Metal Sequin Dress sM

US $2,499.99

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NWT LANVIN FALL 2008 WOOL SILK BELTED WRAP COAT 40 SALE

NWT LANVIN FALL 2008 WOOL SILK BELTED WRAP COAT 40 SALE

US $2,250.00

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The Lost (And Totally Forgotten) Perfumes: Via Lanvin

Since the house of Lanvin is desecrating the memory of its founder, Jeanne Lanvin, by launching a pink fruity floral (blackberry, citruses, pear, peony, freesia, raspberry, sandalwood, amber and musk) and naming it after her*, I thought it was a good t…

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Your Mother!

Can we all stop talking about perfumes as if they become extinct after a shelf date and should be retired to some olfactory graveyard, where they might be admired but never worn? Fine, you mother wore Lanvin Arpege. My mother drank milk, rode a b…

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The Lost Perfumes: My Sin by Lanvin

(I can’t come up with a better title than the name of the perfume, created in 1924 by Madam Zed for the Lanvin fashion house and discontinued years ago)I never met my maternal grandmother. She was a doctor, quite well-known in Vilnius of the 1950s and …

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Forget me Not : Arpège by Lanvin

In the first decade of the 1900s, Jeanne Lanvin, the magnificent, iconic couturiere and founder of the house that still bears her name, begun designing outfits and dresses for one of her younger sisters and her daughter, as well as for her own, beloved and doted upon child, Marguerite. Soon, word spread, and Lanvin became famous as a mother-daughter fashion designer. Lanvin especially loved to

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A Smooth Leather for the Tough Thirties: Lanvin Scandal

by guest writer Denyse BeaulieuThough the fashion pendulum swung back to femininity, away from the androgynous styles of the Garçonnes towards a more traditionally feminine silhouette ~waists, breasts and hips caressed by bias-cut satin, bobs set in p…

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Arpège

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Música Ligera, originally uploaded by Angel_SinClaudicar. Arpège is a perfec…

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Top Ten Scents of Autumn

Today I join with a few of my fellow fragrance bloggers to rhapsodize about our favorite picks to wear during the fall season. Mine are numbered, but in no particular order, really. And I realize with a little surprise that my faves have changed very little from year to year. Maybe it’s because there’s so [...]

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Cuir by Lancome: fragrance review and history

By talented guest writer Denyse Beaulieu/CarmencanadaWhat possessed the dignified monsieur Petitjean, who had launched the Parfums Lancôme in the previous year, to christen his new leather scent Révolte? Armand Petitjean was no firebrand: a former im…

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Beautiful Ghosts: Smelling Blotters from the Osmotheque

Friends are the best. Friends-in-perfume are the best of all. You read Judith’s article about her fabulous smelling expedition to Paris yesterday; in it, she mentions the visit to the Osmothèque, which was the excursion I envied the most. To be able to touch or rather inhale perfume history, to smell “disappeared” fragrances has been a dream of mine for a long time. Imagine my amazement and joy

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