“Forgiveness is the smell that lavender gives out when you tread on it.”
– Mark Twain
Backstage at Giambattista Valli Fall/Winter 2016.
Paris Fashion Week.
Photographed by Kevin Tachman.
Lavender Path
by Laura Berman
“The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows…”
Josephine Skriver, Atelier Versace, Fall 2016 Couture.
“It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should–a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.”
Maison Margiela is honored to be featured in Vogue magazine’s September issue.
Model FeiFei Sun wears our AW15 ‘Artisanal’ hand-painted neoprene mesh dress-coat with an Yves Klein blue bonded silk cotton Obi – designed by John Galliano..
Photographed by David Sims, styled by Grace Coddington
Malgorzata Jablonska
Mantellassi 1926 S.r.l. from Italy. Seductive Seating.
“To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect.”