In Shanghai, Lanvin celebrated the launch of Erwin Wurm’s solo exhibition Dreamwalkers at the Fosun Foundation with a pre-opening cocktail reception. The ceremony follows Lanvin’s collaboration with the acclaimed artist, announced in April as the second installment of Lanvin Lab, an experimental collaborative space dedicated to cultural and lifestyle expressions. Following travels across Beijing and Nanjing, the event marked the Lanvin Lab by Erwin Wurm sculpture’s return to Shanghai and its arrival at the Foundation.

Honorees and special guests, including Erwin Wurm, Fosun Foundation Chairman Jenny Wang, and Lanvin global ambassador and actor Cheng Yi, were among the luminaries from the worlds of fashion and art who gathered to discover the exhibition and Wurm’s artwork for Lanvin Lab.

The large-scale, anthropomorphized figure, a hallmark of Wurm’s work, was specifically created in ‘Lanvin blue’. It references two current Lanvin icons: the Pencil Cat Bag and the Lanvin Cash Sneakers, exemplifying the art and fashion cross-cultural dialogues central to Lanvin Lab.

Located at the entrance of the Fosun Foundation, Erwin Wurm’s artwork for Lanvin Lab opens the exhibition journey. Titled Desire, it represents and questions our collective longing for symbols of self-expression. As Wurm explains, “Symbols of self-expression are what we desire. We often seek this self-expression in objects, such as a beautiful handbag, that represent how we wish to be perceived by others.”

Jeanne Lanvin herself saw fashion as part of a cultural dialogue, and cultivated friendships with writers, musicians, theater directors, and architects of her day, creating a cosmopolitan hub that fired her own creativity within the house. The Dreamwalkers exhibition will present Wurm’s renowned One Minute Sculpture series, alongside artworks using clothing, food, and other readily available everyday objects that interrogate the conceptual boundaries of sculpture. The exhibition will be open to the public from June 19th to August 25th at the Fosun Foundation, Shanghai.

The Lanvin Lab by Erwin Wurm sculpture installation will be on view for the duration of the exhibition before continuing its tour to other cities across China in the coming months.