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Lanvin Resort 2027 by Peter Copping “The Architecture of Timelessness”. Story by Eleonora de Gray, Editor-in-Chief of RUNWAY MAGAZINE: https://runwaymagazines.com/lanvin-resort-2027/

Peter Copping has accomplished something exceptional for Lanvin Resort 2027: a return to the formal glory of the house by looking inward, rather than merely backward. Copping demonstrates a profound conscientiousness toward Lanvin’s heritage, translating it for the modern woman who demands sophisticated, unfussy elegance. These pieces are fiercely contemporary, yet inherently timeless—garments that will simply never become démodé.

This pre-collection draws a direct line to the visionary founder herself. Jeanne Lanvin was an absolute pioneer of liberated, pragmatic chic, the first to expertly shorten skirts to free a woman’s movement. Copping channels this exact spirit. Interestingly, he revealed a secondary muse for this collection: the late interior architect Andrée Putman. An icon of cosmopolitan sleekness, Putman’s aesthetic serendipitously overlaps with Jeanne Lanvin’s.

While the presentation currently features only two trouser silhouettes—exemplified by a perfectly tailored black shirt tucked into wide-leg white trousers—Copping assures a more trouser-forward approach in the future. For now, Resort 2027 stands as a masterful intersection of Jeanne Lanvin’s liberating vision and Copping’s modern reality.

Hermès Fall Winter 2026-2027, the Second Chapter – Resort in Los Angeles: https://runwaymagazines.com/hermes-fall-winter-2026-2027-the-second-chapter/

High in the hills of Bel Air, Hermès unveiled the “second chapter” of its Fall-Winter 2026 collection. The resort show—poetically dubbed “Silhouettes on the Horizon”—required a custom-built, pale yellow runway erected over an open lot above the Hotel Bel Air. Reaching this aerie required a steep ride in a golf cart. One can only imagine the front row, which included Miley Cyrus, Kerry Washington, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, waiting in line for their post-show transport back down to reality.

But logistics aside, the collection itself was a triumph of liberation. Designer Nadège Vanhée delivered a much-needed departure from the somewhat confined, body-con stretch leather shapes of recent seasons. Here, dressmaking met dance. Vanhée drew upon her own childhood fixation on ballet, intertwining the strict, perfected gestures of the artisan with the fluid choreography of the dancer.

The runway offered a masterclass in narrative design. Satin dresses featured gathers and piped seams that deliberately echoed the meticulous construction of pointe shoes. Long, languid velvet dresses dripping with 1930s Hollywood glamour walked alongside spangled knit onesies in pale yellow and bright turquoise. And for the inevitable extrovert, tooled and studded leather biker jackets brought a welcome, rebellious edge.