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Spring 2017 was Pierpaolo Piccioli’s first couture collection on his own, and everyone was watching to see what Valentino would look like without Maria Grazia Chiuri. He answered by changing the silhouette. Thinking about dreams and about the Greek myths that first gave names to human feelings, he moved away from Renaissance princesses towards young goddesses.
The room was kept plain, with a soundtrack by the film composer Alexandre Desplat, so the clothes did all the talking. Each of the 59 looks was named after a myth, starting with Euridice, an ivory crepe plissé column. Flowing pleated gowns, long statuesque tabards, cloaks and flat Greek sandals followed, with chiffon scarves trailing behind the models. The colours were muted, with flashes of red, and some looks had wide, fluid trousers hidden underneath.
Up close, the detail is extraordinary: tiny fan pleats pieced together from silk and jersey, fine lines of silver bugle beads falling unevenly from shoulder to hem, and three different floral guipure laces layered and cut out.
The mood afterwards was relief, then praise. AP reported an audience visibly moved and described the clothes as sensual without being sexual, and Fashion Week Daily said the house’s romance was alive and well. A few found the shapes flowing but shapeless, and the show could have lost some repeated silhouettes.
As a solo debut, though, it is confident, calm and very beautiful.
More Valentino: see every Valentino couture collection we have reviewed and Fashion, Fantasy and Love: Valentino Haute Couture by Pierpaolo Piccioli.
Previous collection: Valentino Fall 2016 Couture · Next collection: Valentino Fall 2017 Couture
Pictures courtesy of Vogue Runway
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