una complex simplicity is what Pierpaolo Piccioli created for the collection Valentino Haute Couture Fall Winter 2023-2024 A Château. Through markedly simple clothes, with relaxed movements in rhythm with those of the body, the ideals of the past are evoked with current spirit. Nothing is left to chance, starting from the choice of location, the Chantilly castle and its boundless exteriors.
Up to the parterre full of celebrities and style icons of the moment, including a veiled Florence Pugh who conquered the scene with a total pink crew cut and see-through dress. “Simplicity Is Complexity Resolved’‘, this is where the magic of Valentino’s Haute Couture fashion show begins.
Chantilly Castle and the Valentino Haute Couture FW 23/24 fashion show
“It is somewhat paradoxical to show in a historic site that I believe is a metaphor for status and power, a symbolism that needs to be challenged and recontextualized“. So she tried to explain the metaphor continues which brought Pierpaolo Piccioli to the catwalk. Whose goal, starting from the choice of Chantilly castle as a location, was to alternate testimonies of a bygone era to one new celebration of beautyof uniqueness and freedom.
A Château is the new Valentino Haute Couture Fall Winter 2023 2024 collection which criticizes the paradoxes of High Fashion, incorrectly synonymous with redundant complexity. Through looks devoid of pyrotechnic elements, but expertly studied in the most meticulous details, “it is about hide the effort required by the achievement of simplicity,” said Piccioli.
The finale of Valentino’s FW 2023 2024 Haute Couture fashion show.
Between trompe-l’oeil and savoir faire
Column dresses and bias tunics alternated with hooded capes for “modern Madonnas”. Through an almost weightless effect, made possible by seemingly simple drapes as much as by cashmere, velvet and asymmetrical hems, the collection was a succession of paradoxes. Starting with the first look, worn by Kaia Gerberwhich included a couple of jeans slouchy vintage Levi’s® 501 made in silk gabardine and entirely embroidered with tiny beads in 80 shades of indigo. Combined with an oversized white shirt and flat silver mules, for a “simply paradoxical trompe-l’oeil”.
Kaia Gerber opens the Valentino Haute Couture show.
From exceptional everyday life to marked simplicity of long dresses that move with the body, streamlined to follow its shapes. Flakes, rose up and color combinations with a strong impact: the signature of Pierpaolo Piccioli is recognizable in the minimized maximalism, common thread of the collection. Capable of making the continuous alternation of romantic designs coherent with other more formal ones up to the digressions designed for the most exclusive Red Carpets.
A look from the collection A Château.
Florence Pugh protagonist of the front row
Like any self-respecting Valentino Haute Couture show, sitting in the fascinating setting of the Chantilly castle at sunset, there was no shortage of long line of celebrities front row. From Salma Abu Deif to Emma Chamberlain to royals Olympia of Greece and Vhistory of Savoy. Even if, to catalyze the attention and leave everyone speechless, she was the actress, as well as the face of the Maison, Florence Pugh.
Florence Pugh at the fashion show photocall.
Sporting a new short cut with a masculine appeal, softened by a sparkling degradé pink hue, her look was no less. A long blue dress in silk chiffon from the Le Club Couture SS 2023 collection.
Transparentso as to show the naked body underneath, it is a design capable of coming to life in motion, making its volume a real show.
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