Valentino

“Who would have looked to Valentino, whose die hard customers once numbered Joan Collins and most of Texas’s social xx-rays, for minimalism? Yet minimalism is what Grazia Chiuri and Piccioli achieved yesterday, and without betraying an ounce of Valentino’s sweet femininity.” —Lisa Armstrong, The Daily Telegraph

“Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri closed Paris couture week with a show that defined, better than anyone else, what contemporary couture is all about. … They simply gave us the best of what that house is able to do: a wardrobe of impeccably feminine, seductively pretty, refreshingly simple and utterly appropriate clothes that any multi millionairess could possibly want.” —Paula Reed, Grazia

Buzz Words:
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