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Alber Elbaz, affable designer who transformed the fortunes of the Lanvin fashion house – obituary

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Geoffrey Beene, moving in 1996 to Paris where, despite not having a word of French, he joined the house of Guy Laroche as head of prêt-à-porter.

In 1998 Elbaz was invited by Pierre Bergé, co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent, to take over as creative director. He recalled that when he phoned his mother to tell her the news she said: “That’s great, Alber.

But when are you getting married?”Soon afterwards, however, YSL was sold to the Gucci Group, whose creative director Tom Ford wanted the design role, and Elbaz was dismissed.

Rescue came in the form of Shaw-Lan Wang, who had bought Lanvin from L’Oréal and appointed Elbaz its creative director in 2001, with freedom to develop his own aesthetic.

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