After winter comes the spring 2011 Lanvin Collection, featuring Anastasia Kuznetsova styled by Johnny Khoo and lensed by Wee Khim. As always from Lanvin — Smart Sensuality wonderful clothes.

Note from Anne | As part of the new cross-website content sharing initiative launched between myself and Paris-based photographer Benjamin Kanarek, I am sharing this essay written by Kristen Lea, Fashion and Lifestyle Contributor to Benjamin Kanarek Blog. The universe works in strange ways. Ben and I share a connection that is almost telepathic.

In reading Kristen’s piece on John Galliano, my own readers will swear it is my writing. While John Galliano checked into a rehab center in Phoenix, Arizona, Kristen Lea’s use of the Phoenix in her essay and in the title is mind-boggling, given my use of Phoenix Rising as a major new trend around female-centric, global values.

Trust me, writing about the Phoenix as a fashion person is damned intellectual. It’s exciting to be part of an international stew of serious thinking around the future of fashion.

John Galliano © DR

By Kristen Lea, Fashion and Lifestyle Contributor to Benjamin Kanarek Blog

The fashion Industry was in uproar last week after John Galliano was dismissed as Creative Director from Christian Dior following numerous anti-Semitic allegations made against the designer. Galliano has denied all allegations made against him and claimed that he is of partial Jewish ancestry, although this has not been verified. The dismissal on 1^st March came immediately following the release of a video clip of the designer, who was unquestionably inebriated, stating, “I love Hitler”.