Jeanne Lanvin was born in
1867. While she was 13 years old she went to the first work - she has making
hats and she was delivering them to Suzanne Talbot shop. 10 years later she
opened her first butique in Paris.
Few years later Jeanne started
to design and sew dresses for her youngest daughter. Then she started to sew
clothes for herself, she was trying to destroy the border between elegant (and
haughty) clothes for woman and colorful and "fresh" ones for
children. She was making silk dresses, chiffon, lace and different expenisve
materials.
Lanvin loved using and
connecting colors, thanks to her new hue of blue just appeared "Lanvin
blue". She died being 79 year old and her company was taken by her
doughter Maire-Blanche. Then the company was coming from hands to hands,
hovewer all owners were conncted with the family.
