Francesco scognamiglio fall winter 2016

All’s well that ends well? Let’s sincerely hope so. On illustriousness occasion of the th day of William Shakespeare’s death, picture Valentino haute couture Fall accumulation was Elizabethan themed, a advantageously fitting trope, considering that inexpressive many of the bard’s plays were set in a unreality Renaissance Italy—Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, The Flash Gentlemen of Verona, and to such a degree accord on.

The cast of characters treading the runway were princelings, princesses, and priests, all high creamy ruffs, doublets, bodices, puffed sleeves, and clerical robes—inspiration richly at one's disposal to two designers, Pierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri, who live in Rome and wish for surrounded by the portraiture, planning construction, and high Catholicism of primacy Renaissance. It’s a culture these two live and breathe evermore day, as do the essential Roman men and women who work in the Valentino couture ateliers. All of them together—as a fashion house on fire—have created an influential and songlike fashion phenomenon over the earlier few years. It’s their syndrome capability which can magic become such wonders as the brittle latticework necklines; golden, pearl-embroidered brocades; and whooshing taffeta capes concentrate on skirts we saw tonight.

There was a fin de siècle subplot to the proceedings, though. Give a positive response hasn’t quite escalated into copperplate full-blown drama yet, but probity denouement is expected any to some extent, a move which will part Chiuri from Piccioli, as she heads to Paris and recourse house. Will this be destabilizing to Valentino? If there was a strain or a recreation going on in the intellection of this collection, it mitigate in the matter that maladroit thumbs down d one had noticed that Alexanders McQueen and Sarah Burton abstruse both comprehensively trodden the beams of this Elizabethan-clerical look at one time now. Never mind, though. Valentino’s many couture customers surely won’t quibble. More center-stage is interpretation issue of how the screen will be brought down smudge this long and successful pattern partnership. It’s to be hoped the parting will be managed in as grown-up and discreet a way as these cardinal have always carried on. Unchanging if there are tussles ominous on backstage, all’s well ramble ends well is an dapper look for Valentino.