Valentino Spring Collection 2011



At Valentino, Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri continued to calibrate “the balance between the heritage and our own style.” The design duo wanted to move the ultrafeminine romance and glamour of Valentino “in an effortless direction, more seductive, more subtle,” and they succeeded with a collection of fragile modern elegance that celebrated the exquisite workmanship of which this house is capable (think tiny florets of kid leather scattered over point d’esprit, or several patterns of fragile lace, and a flowering lace made from stiff crin, worked into a single dress.) A rigorous palette of smoky black, ivory, makeup beiges, and a dash of coral (with just one evening dress in the house’s signature lipstick red) also harnessed the signature exuberance.

On this runway, daywear is an evanescent concept, but flyaway jackets buoyed with stiff ruffles and worn with flaring skirts (cut well above the knee), or with tiny shorts, had a seductive weightlessness to them, and top-stitched “denim” silk separates had a stealthy luxury. And after all, the modern Valentino girl doesn’t need to wait until nightfall to bring out the cocktail frocks. For “evening,” the house’s signature ruffles encircled hems and sleeves, spiraled down bodices, and erupted into giant corsage blooms in gentle evocation of the romantic early seventies collections (that in turn looked back to the dreamy thirties) created by Maestro Valentino—who was in the audience as a show of support for his onetime assistants.

These Valentino Spring Collection 2011 and many more any now available at the Valentino Showroom at the Salhiyah Complex.  For more details, please call +965 2240-0768.