Alber Elbaz and Rihanna

Alber Elbaz with Rihanna backstage after his fall 2014 show in Paris. The singer wore a pre-fall 2014 heather-gray menswear-style cropped suit with a fur shawl and fedora.
Alber Elbaz with Rihanna backstage after his fall 2014 show in Paris. The singer wore a pre-fall 2014 heather-gray menswear-style cropped suit with a fur shawl and fedora.
Pharrell Williams (with wife Helen Lasichanh) in an unorthodox Lanvin tux, complete with Bermuda shorts, at this year’s Oscars.
Elbaz with his models backstage at the Lanvin fall 2014 show during Paris Fashion Week.
Jared Leto wore a Lanvin hat to The Hollywood Reporter’s 2014 Nominees Night party at Spago. The chapeau, he joked, “is half the hat of Pharrell. He has a five-gallon hat; this is … two gallons.”
Rihanna in a Lanvin pre-fall 2014 heather-gray menswear-style cropped suit with a fur shawl and fedora.
Meryl Streep in Lanvin at this year’s Oscars. “Alber has a special genius to know how a woman feels in a dress, which extends to how successfully the style translates,” she says.
Claire Danes wearing a yellow strapless silk billowy blouson gown over her baby bump at the Emmy Awards in 2012.
Emma Roberts at Lanvin’s most recent runway show in Paris wearing the label’s spring 2014 colorful metallic pieces: a fuchsia lamé shirt with a red lamé wrap skirt.
A model in pink taffeta Lanvin in 1958.
A Lanvin model in the 1950s wearing a silver fox shawl.
Rita Hayworth holding a bottle of Lanvin perfume around 1960.
A model getting her makeup done before the Lanvin runway show.
Models waiting backstage in Paris before the Lanvin show.
A close-up of a Lanvin ankle-strap high heel.
Brocade tasseled loafer for women, $890, at Lanvin Beverly Hills and online.
Swarovski crystal and transparent resin Lanvin Red Passion evening clutch, $3,950.
Altair crystal pendant necklace with removable brooch, $2,290.
Actress Jane Birkin modeled Lanvin styles in 1971.