Karl Lagerfeld: Unbeknownst to most people, the one thing that couture clients detest the most is the dress that was worn by an actress. Such product placements are great for promotional purposes, but you can guarantee that the clients will cancel the dress en masse at the bat of an eyelid.
Alber Elbaz: Which strikes me as quite paradoxical.
Lagerfeld: The worst thing on the red carpet is not so much the movie stars--many of whom are delightful--as the stylists and assorted handlers trailing in their wake. Now that's a strange mafia.
Elbaz: There's often a nasty backlash to these events. The slapstick comedians, critics and self-anointed style gurus who slam the actresses for what they're wearing, don't seem to realise that they're also butchering our jobs as designers.
Lagerfeld: They'd have to wake up early to hang us out to dry, darling. Personally, I couldn't care less. Do you let the bad press get to you?
Elbaz: I'm hypersensitive, so pretty much everything gets to me.
...so if Lanvin honestly doesn't lend to red-carpet events, then that's probably why
