Introduction
Bruno Sialelli is a French designer who served as creative director of Lanvin from 2019 to 2023. Earlier roles at Loewe, Acne Studios, Paco Rabanne and Balenciaga placed him across a wide set of luxury vocabularies before he arrived at one of Paris’s oldest houses.
At Lanvin, his work was read as an attempt to reopen the brand through youth culture, storytelling and a lighter sense of eclecticism. That made his tenure notable less for strict continuity than for a willingness to test how heritage could be recast.
Design ethos
At Lanvin, Sialelli brought together tailoring, soft romanticism and a playful use of reference. Motifs drawn from illustration, archive material and popular culture sat beside more formal evening or daywear codes, and the collections often moved between innocence, nostalgia and couture polish.
The method was eclectic but not random. He used narrative and character as organising devices, which allowed disparate colours, textures and eras to coexist and gave the collections a youthful, slightly whimsical charge. That sense of storytelling kept the house archive active without treating it as something closed.
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