PFW SS17: Dior
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...
New Looks – The changing face of Dior’s atelier
In the beginning Monsieur Dior gave us light. Radiated via the luminous ivory silk of the structured jacket belonging to the iconic monochrome Bar suit that exemplified the French fashion designer’s iconic new ...
Haute Couture Spring 2016: Valentino
Making their way through a bed of roses, the models almost floated in their lightness and fluidity, accentuated by a haze of pleated chiffon gowns, which were at the core of Valentino’s haute couture collection...
PFW SS16: Valentino
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...
Dolce & Gabbana and Valentino go off schedule for Fall 2015 Haute Couture
Two of couture’s most illustrious players, Valentino and Dolce & Gabbana, chose to debut their latest array of one-off designs off schedule this season to emphasise that they are each in leagues of their ow...
Paris Menswear SS16: Valentino
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
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
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
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
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
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...