We Need Newness but We Also Have to Know Where We're Coming From

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Suzy Menkes interviews Lanvin artistic director Alber Elbaz for the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. I just love both of them – fashion journalist Suzy Menkes is at this point essentially a great historian, and Elbaz is funny and magnetic, a stunningly brilliant artist in his field.

[+] Select looks from Lanvin Spring/Summer 2011 via style.com

Click here to watch the video (and others) at the New York Times' website – the embed above is a little cut-off.