The Lanvin collection produces not only an impression of homogeneous perfection impossible to duplicate, but is also a successful manifestation of how to express one's own personality. To be able to remain true to oneself is in itself as wonderful an achievement as possessing the imaginative qualifications needed for designing an entire collection. I never felt the Lanvin atmosphere expressed as strongly as in this collection, possibly because of Madame Lanvin's having only recently assured me that this season's novelty would be the "Lanvin atmosphere intensified." She has certainly kept her word, for this is one of the best collections she has ever produced, a collection which might easily take its name from the luck-bringing penguin, as, with obvious exceptions, it is, from A to Z, the "black-and-whitest" collection which has ever been designed by anyone....