Posts tagged maria grazia chiuri
Posts tagged maria grazia chiuri
red valentino fall/winter 2012-13. pier paolo piccioli & maria grazia chiuri have been as successful co-designers as they could be. in piccioli’s words, the diffusion collection is a romantic idea of a young girl thinking about fashion: mixing something new w/something vintage w/something couture. the result is full of charm: tulle ruffled cocktail dresses that look as sweet as they sound, fitted pants w/cashmere capes for day & for evening, a brocade jacket. w/a simple & feminine colour palette — blacks, off-whites & shades of blush — it has the potential to be as popular as its big-sister collection, valentino. & w/so many items to pick from, i’d love to see a store in canada/united-states soon.
view the complete lookbook here.
designers maria grazia chiuri & pier paolo piccioli refashion valentino’s distinct feminine ideal to create a modern glamour that is all their own. their breathtaking creations reveal what makes haute couture special, but it’s the hands of valentino’s roman atelier staff that spin magic into material & bring the chiuri & piccioli vision to life.
light as thistledown & shown on pale, lithe girls, valentino couture spring 2012 references valentino’s own romantic clothes from the early 70s, especially in the use of faded flower-sprigged organza, often veiled & shadowed in point d’esprit & lace.
the designers use warp-printed taffetas of the sort that marie antoinette favored for frolics, woven w/subtle foliate motifs & an eighteenth-century toile (in a soft rust red) representing africa for a strapless ball dress w/ballooning skirts. four-leaf clovers or posies of violets printed over airy organza & shadowed w/layers of tulle & lace, like belle époque tea gowns. at the neck, a prim ruffle of lace.
tailored pieces revealed a stricter hand: sleek ivory cape over lean pants, or jersey or double-face dresses w/hand detailing of extraordinary subtlety & skill; princess seams of a little dress finished with rows of self-fabric piping spirals, graduated in scale from shoulder to hem (required 450m of fabric); 1,000hrs of labor went into the handwork on a dress of elaborately smocked organza; 1,250hrs into the sparkling silver embroidery on a chine taffeta redingote based on an eighteenth-century version; & 800hrs to weave the warp-print faille for one of the ball dresses.
view the complete collection here.
