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Bouchra Jarrar returns to couture calendar

Bouchra Jarrar, the former creative director of Lanvin who replaced Alber Elbaz, has returned to the couture calendar at Paris Couture Week. For the past two years since she departed Lanvin, Jarrar has been mostly absent from the fashion industry. Jarrar isn't calling her collection a relaunch, but, rather, an "Edition" as she described it to...

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Overview: Designers' Musical Chair Dance in 2017

London - The musical chair dance occurring within the fashion industry, which sees a number of high profile designers leave their former roles as creative director for similar positions at rival fashion houses, continued well throughout 2017. Now that the year is almost over, FashionUnited takes a moment to review the most striking changes of...

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The Cult of The Designer Who Transcends The Brand

Upon hearing the news that Bouchra Jarrar was out at Lanvin, and Olivier Lapidus had been signed, many in the fashion world sighed at the reopening of an old wound. The widespread feeling that the company is flogging a dead horse and hoping it will still pull the weight of management’s series of tone-deaf, misguided decisions can be felt in...

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Lanvin taps Olivier Lapidus to succeed Bouchra Jarrar

French designer Olivier Lapidus has been named the successor of Bouchra Jarrar and is set to take on the role of artistic director at Lanvin. "It is a great honor to join Lanvin and I warmly thank Madame Wang for placing her confidence in me," says Olivier Lapidus in a statement from Lanvin. "With nearly 130 years of history, Lanvin is the...

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Lanvin confirms Bouchra Jarrar sudden departure

London - Bouchra Jarrar sudden, but not completely unexpected exit from her role as artistic director at Lanvin, caught the industry off guard Thursday afternoon. News first emerged late in the afternoon that the 46-year-old designer was set to step down from her role, only 10 months after she presented her debut collection for the luxury...

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Bouchra Jarrar exits Lanvin

In the next round of designer musical chairs, we have Bouchra Jarrar exiting Lanvin. Jarrar took over the role of artistic director from famed designer Alber Elbaz, and after a mere fifteen months and two collections she is already on her way out. The story first broke on WWD. This leave's Lanvin without an artistic director for the spring 2018...

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Employees at Lanvin afraid of potential jobs cuts following sales dip

London - It seems as if French fashion house Lanvin has yet to complete a full turnaround following the appointment of its new creative director Bouchra Jarrar. Staff at Lanvin are said to be waiting in fear for a fresh wave of job cut following news that the brand’s new creative head was unable to boost sales out of the red in 2016, according...

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Bouchra Jarrar in at Lanvin?

New York - In October, longtime creative director of Lanvin, Alber Elbaz, was removed by the board of directors. The departure of Elbaz sent shockwaves through the fashion industry. The brand ended up showing their fall/winter 2016 collection without a creative director at the helm. Now, it looks like Lanvin might have found their new women's...

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Bouchra Jarrar awarded couture status

French designer Bouchra Jarrar, who has been on the official haute couture calendar since 2010 as a ‘guest member’ has been awarded haute couture appellation by the Commission de Classement Couture, the body in charge of deciding who makes the grade as a couture house. Jarrar set up her label less than four years ago and in that short time she...