Giambattista Valli is a designer who likes to freight his designs with as much concept as crafting a single garment can take. This comes down to his couture backbone and because of this, he succeeds were others would quickly falter. This season he designed with a couturier’s sentiment for spring/summer, overloading pieces with panels of lavish Asian silkscreen florals, which thankfully avoided becoming chintzy, instead Valli realised them in an incarnation of blue and white china.
This was where his strengths prevailed for the most part this season; however, there were a number of graceful floral arrangements that took many more garments and placed them somewhere beyond mere wardrobe fodder. By way of this, Valli did much to suggest that his RTW is artisanal panoply for the body, no less.
While Glass would be ready to wear a dress like Valli’s infinitely tiered petal dress in a moment, such sartorial confections aren’t exactly ready-to-wear, so Valli made sure to modify this with looks that would appear in vogue on a stroll down the high street and supply a whole lot of fashion sense in addition. Pretty patterned mini-dresses will be the go-to garments in that respect, offering up exactly what Valli’s girl wants for summer. The designer made every effort to cover all of the bases that he excels in this season and did so in a way that has kept his high-fashion prestige fresh with the young-girl-of-the-world lifestyle set.
by Liam Feltham
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