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Byline: editor: Sarah Brown
"Ambassador of Elegance" was the name filmmaker Sacha Guitry bestowed upon Jeanne Lanvin when he presented her with France's Legion d'honneur in 1938. It was a fitting title and one that current Lanvin creative director Alber Elbaz wears well himself. This month, Elbaz debuts a glamorous tribute to Mme Lanvin, who famously loved perfume: a musky blackberry-, raspberry-, and peony-spiked fragrance called, simply, Jeanne Lanvin. The heavyweight glass bottle, delicately cinched at the waist with a hand-tied pink silk-tulle bow, is feminine without being flouncy, minimalist ...