MFW SS21: Valentino

SEASON upon season, Valentino gives us a slice of wonderland reigniting the belief that fashion is magical. With each collection, Creative Director Pierpaolo Piccioli gives us a fashion fantasy, and there has b...

PFW AW20: Valentino

MOST OF us tend to associate uniforms with conformity, assimilation and partial cloaking of one’s identity. But not Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli, who has accomplished the complete opposite w...
PFW SS20 Valentino

PFW SS20: Valentino

PURITY and extravagance defined Pierpaolo Piccioli’s SS20 for Valentino at PFW. The show began with white clouds of cotton poplin, shaped into shirt dresses, before morphing into a rainbow of colour and pattern...

PFW AW19: Valentino

AT THE Valentino show, a luminous white neon sign read, “The people you love become ghosts inside of you and like this you keep them alive.” Artist Robert Montgomery's poignant words resonated throughout the ro...
Valentino PFW SS19

PFW SS19: Valentino

PIERPAOLO Piccioli knows how to construct clothing that makes you gasp out loud. His vision for Valentino has long remained clear – generous proportions of material are used to create grand structures for grand...
Valentino SS18 PFW

PFW18: Valentino Couture

VOLUME is key in the Valentino SS18 couture collection. Oversized balloons of fabric in vibrant yellows, blues and purples open the show. Belted with tight ribbons and draping bows, sophisticated jackets with p...

PFW SS17: Valentino

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 AW16: Valentino

BALLET, movement and living in the moment – that was the inspiration behind Valentino’s AW16 collection. And the audience was most definitely living in the moment when seeing this dream of a collection parading...

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...

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...