Lanvin hosted back-to-back parties in Paris Friday night. Guests first toured a preview of the “Jeanne Lanvin” retrospective at the Palais Galliera and then repaired to the historic private salons of the Shangri-La Hotel where feathered top hats, fresh blooms and taxidermy parrots and flamingos added to the festive mood. Valentino’s Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli had traveled to Paris early especially for the event, with their latest collection due to be presented on Tuesday. “The exhibition is fantastic, I love the trunk with the mirror that shows the inside of the dress and its amazing workmanship, and the story’s beautiful because it’s about a woman who made dresses for her daughter; it’s very romantic,” said Chiuri, dressed in a long black cape, her fingers loaded with bold rings carrying scarab beetles, skulls and cobras. Mingling by the bar as the crowd bopped to a live band, Katerina Jebb, who did the show’s catalogue, said: “I spent a long time with those clothes, those works, masterpieces of texture and application. So poetic.” The artist, who wore a long white vintage Zandra Rhodes dress, is planning a solo exhibition for the Réattu museum in Arles for next year. “It’s such a wonderful walk down history
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