Valentino Spring 2010 Couture Goes Youthful, Earns Balenciaga Comparisons

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posted by layers&swathes

1/27/10 Report Comment

Can someone please blindfold me from this collection. What is this?!

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posted by PBAmanda

1/27/10 Report Comment

I don't know...this looks like a great RTW collection to me, but I need couture to be something more - something elevated. Not only does it remind me a lot of Balenciaga, but a few of the minidresses reminded me of Herve Leger, particularly with the neon yellow accents. I liked their last couture collection a lot more than this one.

 

posted by Jazmyn Alexandria

1/27/10 Report Comment

Wow I'm in love with this collection!

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posted by Anonymous

1/28/10 Report Comment

i am seeing a little lindsay lohan at ungaro in this collection, not all bad but not what is expected of valentino couture.

 

posted by fraz

1/28/10 Report Comment

they fired Alessandra Facchineti because she was not enough "valentino-ish" and now Chiuri & Piccioli give us this collection (in my opinion Versace mixed with Rodarte)?!? bah, i don't like them, facchinetti was better and, for sure, she was way more Valentino.

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>> A year after Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli dropped their first Valentino couture collection — an ode to the archives — the designers have entirely switched direction. "We think that to keep a future in couture, it's necessary to bring a new customer who wants something cooler," Chiuri said backstage. Piccioli added, "We tried to make new strategies for going forward. To do that we have to experiment with new silhouettes . . . because we want to call the young girls. They can be new customers for couture because they want beauty, they want personalized things."

This injection of youth involved Alice Dellal walking the runway and sheer ribbon blindfolds created by Philip Treacy; the graphically colorful collection is already earning comparisons to Nicolas Ghesquiere's Balenciaga, with some terming it "Valenciaga." But Piccioli says the collection is "about a woman wandering in this beautiful Eden. It's a dream. Couture is a dream."