Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
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Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Valentino Spring Couture 2011 Collection
Italian designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli presented a lighter-than-air latest collection 2011-12 for Valentino at the Haute Couture collections in Paris.
After latest 2011-12 collection that put the seal on his and co-designer Maria Grazia Chiuri’s creative stewardship of Valentino. The real subversion is culture.
Fashion designer Piccioli’s somewhat opaque words actually helped to explain the paradox of the Valentino s/s 2011 collection: how something so blatantly pretty, pale, and light could also feel like it had an irresistible germ of, if not subversion, then at least oddness. It wasn’t just the penitent hair and makeup, or Freja’s opening outfit, in all its vestal virginity. Chiuri said there was a secret in the collection, in the way the pleats fell, the way the sheer fabrics seemed about to reveal something while keeping it hidden. That secret was presumably the girl inside the clothes. If she was covered up, she wasn’t demure. The fashion models walked with a diffident hauteur, hardly innocent.
Valentino never disappoints because elegance, femininity and beauty is in its DNA. Beautiful delicate butterflies and floral appliqués adorned this collection of mostly floor-length dresses.
Every piece moved with a wave-like fluidity which was both sophiscated and sensual giving us a beautifully haunted atmosphere. With the music softly playing the background, you could actually hear the tiered ruffles flutter delicately as the models walked the gold runway. The color palette was neutral with tones of stone, pale pink, beige, lilac plus aqua and classic Valentino red and aqua.
Chiuri and Piccioli’s signatures may be delicate lace, bows, flowers, plissé but underlying that delicacy is an intense emphasis on workmanship. The process of subtraction applied equally to the openwork on the seams of an ivory crepe dress and the lace insets that made the trailing eveningwear seem barely there.
Put today’s fashion show together with the duo’s ready to wear and the menswear line they launched in Paris Men’s Fashion Week and you get the inescapable sense that they have a genuine vision for the Valentino fashion brand.
