Lanvin

For what might have been the best show of the season, Lanvin hurled its decadent rent boys into the real world. For several years Ossendrijver, the Lanvin’s menswear designer, had successfully mined a new kind of luxury: relaxed, unstructured, blasé. But with recession and continuous man-made disasters it seems that the time of nonchalance is over. Ossendrijver made his young men don travel coats and heavy backpacks over their fine washed silks and linens. Were they drafted to go fight a war? Were they forced to leave their inherited mansions because they lost their fortune in a market crash? No one knows, but one thing is for sure: sometimes we have to grow up and face this tough world whether we like it or not, and Lanvin successfully presented a vision of compulsory maturity.