Valentino Spring Summer 2013 Creative Directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli look at neo-realist Rome for inspiration: its spirit of change, the desire for reinvention, the dignity of composed yet sensual elegance they create an aesthetic that is liquid and dazzling. Couture creates a sense of authenticity. Clothes skim the body; curves are barely perceptible because suggestion is seduction. The silhouette is light, below-the-knee or long, with a slightly fitted waist. Masculine and feminine blend on blouses and dresses covered with tiny beading. There is a sense of rigor and composure in virginal polo shirts and suits with long skirts, in dresses that swathe the shoulders with trompe l'oeil capes and that protect the bodice beneath faux jackets...
Valentino Apparel Fall Winter 2012 2013 The focus is on globetrotting and searching for one's roots. Rediscovered local allure is transformed into a global synthesis. Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli embark upon an imaginative journey, exploring different knowledge, iconographies, and traditions with a keen eye and rapid movements. They indulge in tactile artisan craftsmanship while they reduce a line to its pure architectural essence. The result is design in counterpoint – sleek and distinctive – where precise lines and intense surface textures blend to create shimmering, liquid and always new balances. The search for authentic expression is translated into silhouettes with classic purity. Dresses are a sublimation of ancestral powers and figures. Lines are elongated...
Valentino Spring Summer 2012 This is a liberating, emotional, sensorial journey in which fashion is an expression of pure aesthetic pleasure. Starting from an intangible dream, it shapes the real world, rediscovering through urgent desire and sensuous abandon a real, tactile, joyous dimension of clothes. With the Valentino Spring Summer 2012 collection, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli have established a new harmonious balance between a woman's personality, body, and clothes. The philosophy behind the design and the commitment to artisan craftsmanship are more subtle and placed at the service of the woman who wears them. The clothes become instruments for expressing one's identity and to change it with a rapid gesture that is never definitive...
