Summary
Paris Fashion Week is continuing in the French capital.
Reports last year that the relatively unknown Lapidus (the house's third designer in as many years) planned to make Lanvin into "a French Michael Kors" were greeted by fashion insiders with snooty indignation.
It toed the line between some more salable color-blocking looks with the generous couture that has (until now) defined the house.
The best looks came when Lapidus stuck to the house DNA.
That includes the Sumatran tiger (350 left), the Vaquita dolphin (30 left), the Javan rhinoceros (67 left) and the Burmese roofed turtle (40 left), according to the house.
103ncyclopedic fashion check list" might have been a better suggestion for the ambitious and stylish collection.
Elsewhere, the '20s were evoked, continuing the heady era's revival on the Paris Fashion Week runway.
Bold glam rock looks completed the fall-winter collection.
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