The new New York Look Magazine has the highest praise for Alber Elbaz of Lanvin. They say the Spring Lanvin Collection brought the fashion crowd to its feet. Elbaz created an entire collection that had people saying “beautiful, wearable, desirable.”

Here's an excerpt;

Making clothes that look pretty on a professional model, who’s had professional hair and makeup, and whose only job is to walk down the runway and have her picture taken, is one thing. But Elbaz thinks past that to an actual customer who is likely not a 19-year-old sylph. Lanvin is expensive; skirts start at $900, dresses at $1,500, coats at $1,800. There might be a few young women who will buy it; however, the real Lanvin client is a woman with a meeting to go to and a couple of kids and five other places to be right now. She wants to feel beautiful and sexy, but she wants to be able to move, to get in a cab, to stride through her life at full speed and still feel elegant.

That’s the sweet spot Elbaz hit so precisely. A champion at draping, he used his skill (and a gossamer-weight, high-tech polyester fabric) to reinvent clothing’s most basic pieces—blouses, skirts, trench coats—with a sophisticated sexiness. Necklines slithered off collarbones, gowns clung gently to hips, dresses had lavish ruffles. And his confident use of color (giddy, brilliant hues like amethyst, garnet, canary, cobalt) looked both feminine and thrilling.

Here's a video from the Lanvin Spring Collection Show.