In this week’s issue of The New Yorker, Ariel Levy narrates a slide show about Alber Elbaz and his summer and fall preview collections.

Elbaz designs for Smart Sensuality women, as one of the first men to qualify for honorary membership in this new Anne of Carversville sororiety. Elbaz is truly devoted to the female form as it exists, to women as we are.

Lanvin design maestro Alber Elbaz via The New Yorker

Albaz is not the familiar male designer with a Henry Higgins attitude, gushing out loud about female glamour, while privately trying to make woman “more like a man.”

Today’s Elan post feature Bernard Arnault: A Modern Tastemaker Exploring Our Cultural Creative Future takes a look at Arnault, and his luxury empire LVMH.