Peter Copping
Artistic Director, Lanvin
The former Oscar de la Renta designer took over as artistic director of Lanvin and has previously worked at Louis Vuitton, Sonia Rykiel and Christian Lacroix.
Copping is the artistic director at France’s oldest couture house Lanvin. Copping departed Oscar de la Renta less than two years after he was officially installed at the family-owned company, whose namesake passed away in October 2014.
In June 2024, Copping was named artistic director at Lanvin. The appointment ended a designer search that took more than a year amid instability at the French brand’s Chinese parent company. Copping, a British native, has taken the creative lead for womenswear and menswear from September 2024. “Peter Copping’s arrival at Lanvin is an important milestone in the renaissance of one of the great French maisons. I am confident that with Peter’s vision and technical rigour and the continued perseverance of our teams globally, we will identify a new frontier in fashion and deliver beauty and results in equal measure” Siddhartha Shukla said in a statement.
In February 2015, at Peter Copping’s inaugural show as creative director of Oscar de la Renta, guests arrived to find a typed note on every seat. “I never had the chance to work with Oscar, which is something I deeply regret,” it read. Indeed, Copping’s first season at Oscar de la Renta was not as planned. In October 2014, Oscar de la Renta announced Copping’s appointment, telling press he marvelled in their shared “design sensibilities” and “deep curiosity.” The plan was for Copping to work alongside an ageing de la Renta, spending a few seasons becoming fully embedded in the house’s aesthetic, before taking the reigns. However, just two weeks after the announcement de la Renta passed away.
Formerly the artistic director of Nina Ricci, British-born Copping has an eclectic resume that has seen him work for Louis Vuitton and Sonia Rykiel, and cut his couture teeth at Christian Lacroix as an intern. His career in Paris has granted Copping the technical abilities required to carry on de la Renta’s legacy and, as Alexander Fury pointed out in his review of Copping’s debut, keep de la Renta’s formidable technicians on their toes.
Copping is now a contributing editor at Architectural Digest.
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