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VALENTINO LE CLUB COUTURE Spring Summer 2023

Shifting perception and perspective, context is altered – Couture is presented within new environs, as emphasis to this essential exchange. There is…

VALENTINO LE CLUB COUTURE Spring Summer 2023 - Photo Courtesy of Valentino
VALENTINO LE CLUB COUTURE Spring Summer 2023 – Photo Courtesy of Valentino

The impossibility of Haute Couture – an expansion of the imagination, a space beyond reason. Couture is a sphere of fantasy and freedom, of the unique and exceptional, where craft is not a fetishistic reflection of value but a means and methodology to achieve improbabilities, to challenge perceptions, to create bold new realities. Fabric becomes a chiaroscuro across the body, volumes float, cuts are imperceptible, a ribbon of chiffon may suspend a ball gown. The unbelievable becomes material, imagination becomes real.

Harnessed to this fundamental virtue of Haute Couture, Creative Director Pierpaolo Piccioli conceives an impossible rendez-vous, between the universes of Couture and the club. Perceived polarities can provoke dialogue, another impossibility: a synergetic, spontaneous language is found between the lexicon of Couture and the world of nightclubbing. Their shared values: mutual gestures of extravagance, the notion of clothes as tools of transformation, crafting a true self, a dichotomous yet dual vocabulary of display and revelation, performance through life. And, above all, a plurality of beauty, beauty as individuality, a heroic expression of inner truth made outer. Fashioning a dream – the opportunity to become.

VALENTINO LE CLUB COUTURE Spring Summer 2023 - Photo Courtesy of Valentino
VALENTINO LE CLUB COUTURE Spring Summer 2023 – Photo Courtesy of Valentino

Shifting perception and perspective, context is altered – Couture is presented within new environs, as emphasis to this essential exchange. There is a symbiosis between the characters of the club and the imprimatur of Maison Valentino, boldness conveyed through colour and graphic pattern, embellishment and volume.

VALENTINO LE CLUB COUTURE Spring Summer 2023 - Photo Courtesy of Valentino
VALENTINO LE CLUB COUTURE Spring Summer 2023 – Photo Courtesy of Valentino

Volant ruffles invent new architectures around bodies, polka-dots and stripes are reinterpreted through cut, forming two dimensions from three. Couture tropes are challenged through their celebration, embroideries and hand-drapes, pale pink feathers knotted with black satin bows. A play with scale magnifies details, to resonate. The glamour of Valentino is resignified, reflective of the self-expression of a new generation.

And within the egalitarian arena of the club, Couture itself transmutes ideologically: here it may become democratic, a proposition of universal enjoyment, a symbol of emotional resonance. The sign value of Haute Couture is thus transformed – Couture becomes an emblem of uniqueness, personality, identity and character, and an evocation of the purest human joy of dressing and dressing up.

VALENTINO LE CLUB COUTURE Spring Summer 2023 - Photo Courtesy of Valentino
VALENTINO LE CLUB COUTURE Spring Summer 2023 – Photo Courtesy of Valentino

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