Valentino Pre-Fall 2008

[dior_couture1245]

I love the shoes! The lace up ones are nice, but I REALLY love the velvet closed toe heels! Those are really gorgeous! Especially the red pair!

[ptowngal]

Originally Posted by Bidwell

An admirer of Zac Poseur. Enough said. That is why there is a market for everyone.
I don't believe it is possible to have a proper debate concerning an upstart socialite brat designer and someone who garnered a top position at GUCCI AND VALENTINO.
Moving on, I do think it an interesting and welcome development of having more women at the healm (both in design and government).
I for one am sick of the in-your-face patrimony of male designers (and that's coming
from the horse's mouth).
All to her.

I don't want to debate designers, but Zac's Pre-fall collection is one of the best I've seen so far. For me this collection was disappointing after Valentino's fantastic SS08 designs. I'm interested to see what Alessandra does with the actual fall/winter collection. I like to judge collections based on the actual clothes rather than who designed them.

[Salvatore]

Originally Posted by Bidwell

Moving on, I do think it an interesting and welcome development of having more women at the healm (both in design and government).
I for one am sick of the in-your-face patrimony of male designers (and that's coming
from the horse's mouth).
All to her.

I agree! I was thinking of how exciting it will be to have another woman at a major couture house! I am excited to see what she will present for her first haute couture collection when she does it.

[Kushie]

I don't think I can get over the fact that there will not be any signature classic red... in her collections. That was such a Valentino classic that should remain. Because red is such a statement, which can be worn over periods of time, it WAS Valentino. His brand identity to me.

[disco54]

This looks very Pilati YSL , whom im not a fan of at ALL, but her choice of palette sucks and the clothes are a bit too gothic and dark , Valentinos women never are .

[carmen_kass]

I like the models.

[jf813]

Give it a chance...

[vogue28]

i dont like this at all; so not valentino

[j´adore dior]

I agree with all of you who think this is really similar to Pilati´s work, to be honest this is probably not what one could expect from Valentino but for example those bell, rather Balenciaga bottoms of some dresses look like something she could have taken from the archives, since Mr Valentino has been around for so long, there are four decades in which he has interpreted his style with current trends, so there are millions of cuts and shapes to be inspired from, most of them, us the younger generation wouldn´t even consider it Valentino (hope I made myself clear lol).
For me Valentino´s magic lies on the details and I hope she understands that and would try to aproach the collections in that way, the little twist that makes everything looks new a fresh.
I also think that this is a pre-fall collection, very boutique oriented, as comercial as all the others designers pre-fall and resort collections and so they are styled in a comercial way too, so I think we should wait until the March show, but god forbids she turns Valentino into a somber, gothic house, even on his last ready to wear show, his models were dancing and having a good time, this house is all about superfluous glamour, and she should preserve that notion, she sould take the shoes from this collection as the starting point for the next one!

[Miss Dalloway]

I have to say i like this,its a nice first collection for her,its strong and i love the fact that it dosent scream Valentino,that would be so distasteful(i actually expected her to go there)so thumbs up for now.

[FogUponLA]

I really like this. It's about damn time Valentino went in a different direction. I for one was sick and tired of the exact same collection over and over again. I don't mean to offend any Valentino fans - the man knows how to dress a modern glamorous woman, it's just that it became so repetative. In my opinion anyway.

[Mr. Fabulous]

Ohhhh jesus.

[Girlfriend1]

this is 110% not valentino, whatsoever. disgusting. someone needs to fire her.
and even if this wasnt valentino, this collection is going backwards in fashion, and is not fashion forward WHATSOEVER. yuck.

[Girlfriend1]

Originally Posted by j'adorekapusta

i am extremely happy for Valnetino taking risk and making some cleansing. all i can see for now is the new silhouette, the new volumes and proportions. and it's promising. aren't we all bored with the same sparkle-sexy-gimme-more-red-dresses concept of what is called Valentino? it's always interesting to see some freshness and pushing boundaries. do you miss Garavani so much? not me. sincerely.

excuse me, but valentino has an image to live up to, and so far, it looks like its going down the drain, because there are only a handful, if any, true valentino customers that would buy that.

[Bidwell]

Does anyone here even buy Valentino? Or ever bought?