PWF AW17: Dior

Jessica Quillin
Fashion, Fashion Shows, News
EMPOWERMENT is a word that evokes images of suffragettes in white or, more recently, hundreds of thousands of people marching in protest. In the hands of Maria Grazia Chiuri in her latest ready-to-wear collecti...

PFW SS17: Valentino

Livia Feltham
Fashion, Fashion Shows, News
VALENTINO, since 2008 the result of a design duo acclaimed for stylish synergy, is now a one-man show. Pier Paulo Piccioli is that man – the sole creative director whose partner in cloth since around about the ...
PFW SS17 Dior

PFW SS17: Dior

Livia Feltham
Fashion, Fashion Shows, News
IT WAS Dior Couture’s Chief Executive Sidney Toledano who hinted back in July soon after Maria Grazia Chiuri was appointed Creative Director of the brand that the world should “expect a new Dior”. After receivi...

PFW SS16: Valentino

Sara Hesikova
Fashion, Fashion Shows, News
The Valentino show for SS16 had its quiet moments with simple dresses in black or neutral colours but for most part it was pretty wild as the designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli were so clearly...

Paris Menswear SS16: Valentino

Livia Feltham
News
On the first day of the Paris-based leg of menswear SS16’s gala performances, Valentino revealed its most unbridled side. Building on the fashion house’s increasingly fanciful transition now that Maria Grazia C...

PFW AW15: Valentino

Sara Hesikova
News
The Valentino show for AW15 started off small and ended big. The black and white beginning was very minimal including the bare make-up of the models with only a hint of brown eye-shadow and hair clipped at the ...

Paris Menswear AW15: Valentino

Livia Feltham
News
Valentino’s top creative dogs Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli’s stuck to the house codes this season for a menswear presentation staged in harmony with the design house’s affinity with pattern making...

Paris Menswear SS15: Valentino

Livia Feltham
News
In Paris this menswear season Valentino was a little bit of this and a little bit of that. This was free-spirited and that was evocative of calmer days gone by. Well, as it goes, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpao...

PFW AW14: Valentino

Marie-Louise von Haselberg
News
Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli have been at the helm of the Valentino label for five years now, with admirable success. The rejuvenation of the brand, their meticulously researched and executed coll...

Valentino Couture SS13

Marie-Louise von Haselberg
Feature
There has been much talk of late of a new era in fashion, both in couture and pret-a-porter. A desire for beautiful yet wearable clothes and the sea change in certain fashion houses, both in appointments and di...