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Valentino Haute Couture F/W 08.09 Paris

Watched this interview with her again, and I just can't get over how much I love her!
And how insulting that she was fired for not using the archives when her entire mood board is covered with archival Valentino tear sheets!
 
^Thanks so much for these Chase, I'm so in love with the woman too!

The way she speaks about her her work is so inspiring, you can really see a great passion in it. Why on earth would they replace her with the new "designers", I'll never know.
 
this collection is a dream!! magnificent!! I like Chiuri & Piccioli, I really like their work but this is beyond!!! a different touch, it´s perfection!
 
Wow, this collection is still so amazing.

 
Beautiful and very romantic collection.

A nod to old Valentino and it also feels a bit futurist in some of the silhouettes and the structure of the clothes. I think this collection has really aged well too.

Sad that politics got in the way
 
I think this collection has really aged well too.

Sad that politics got in the way
I was thinking the same thing as I revisited this thread with the video bump. It's aged wonderfully. Everything still looks very fresh.

I was obviously a big fan of this collection judging by my comments here almost 10 years ago at this point! Haha! Time flies in fashion, doesn't it?! Which is all the more a testament to how well designed and well executed this collection was. So many ideas, so many innovative and creative ways to update traditional couture embellishments and flourishes. Also - the mood was so right and so fresh for Valentino...a kind of cleaned up, slightly more "high fashion," less red carpet vision of the house. This collection really struck a great balance of femininity and beauty without ever veering into a saccharine, super young territory.

In fact, maybe what I liked so much about Pierpaolo's Spring/Summer 2017 solo couture collection was that is almost seemed to hark back to this collection. That same super distilled, rarified and elevated, crystal clear Valentino. Grown up, not girly.
 
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