Lanvin to make grand return to Paris Fashion Week with new Creative Director

Storied French house, Lanvin, has today announced it is making its return to the cobbled streets of Paris with its runway collection in late January 2024.

Lanvin will mark its formal return to the Paris Fashion Week calendar with the debut fashion show from Peter Copping, who was appointed in June. The British designer is the luxury label's fifth couturier of the decade.

Copping, a modern-day couturier, has channelled the Founder Jeanne Lanvin’s le Chic Ultime (her concept for the quintessence of chic), for his first collection for the luxury fashion house.

Peter Copping said: "Jeanne Lanvin was a visionary of her time whose interests and passions extended far beyond fashion, as do my own. I am extremely honoured to have been chosen as Artistic Director of Lanvin and to be able, along with the atelier and teams, to write the next chapter for this iconic house."

Peter Copping, Artistic Director of Lanvin

Previously, the graduate of Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, Copping began his career at Sonia Rykiel and then spent over a decade at Louis Vuitton with Marc Jacobs as head of womenswear. He was later named Creative Director of Nina Ricci in Paris and Oscar de la Renta in New York, where Mr. de la Renta designated Copping his successor before moving to Balenciaga.

Lanvin, the oldest continually operating couture house in France, will host an "intimate runway presentation" that will feature the Autumn-Winter 2025 women’s and men’s ready-to-wear collections "in a unique moment of revelation".