Valentino Haute Couture F/W 10.11 Paris

[Chris_Couture05]

This was not a great collection but it was ok. There are some really great peices in this collection. I guess they are starting to take leep in the right direction. The problem is #1 that they keep focusing on this really young girl when the brand is supposed to be about women of all ages. There is nothing wrong with trying to bring in a younger audience but, Im sure that they have lost a lot of the former clients as well. Also they really need to work on how to make garments for younger women with out them looking like grown up sized baby clothes, because a lot of the ruffled frocks look just like that. We know that Haute Couture is not made to be sold like RTW but what client is gonna buy it when some of these garments are not even age appropriate for a 20 year old.

And #2 Valentino was about celebrating the femininity of a woman, the garments complemented the body and shape of a women. He used his garments to elegantly show off a womans hips, lips(not really lol), brests, and @ss. So why are they covering all of this up in over ruffled frocks and coats? I like this collection beacuse it is the best collection they have done in a while. Even with that said they still have alot to learn. But with the progress they have made woth this collection, I will be waiting with optimisim on what they will do next season

P.S and I still think they use the most awfull and garrish looking lace

 

[muffintoppp]

I'm not in love with it. DOesn't really scream couture to me either.

 

[dior_couture1245]

DOesn't really scream couture to me either.

HAUTE COUTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ParadEyes]

I quite like the cropped details' pictures..but the overall collection just doesn't impress me..

 

[Flashbang]

Valentino: Up in the Air
By CATHY HORYN

A thick mob of people, mostly young and nearly all clutching cameras, stood in the blazing 6 p.m. sun outside the entrance to the Valentino show in the Place Vendôme. They extended to the curb, and guests had to walk through a narrow path the onlookers seemed reluctant to provide. Liz Hurley was inside, in a pretty fuchsia slip dress, but most of the other V.I.P.’s were young socialites and, of course, models. The throng was waiting for them, a glimpse of someone famous and beautiful.

The collection that the designers, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli, served up was airy and based essentially on an ultrashort trapeze dress (or coat) in organza, gazar or wool crepe. Bows and flounces were added to the shape. All in all, the models, their hair in dome-shaped buns and wearing mules with more bows or tiny flowers on the tips, looked like wisps that might blow away. The designers like fragility, though it obviously flatters only certain bodies. As beautiful as Ms. Hurley is, she would have difficulty wearing many of the clothes Ms. Chiuri and Mr. Piccioli proposed. Too short, too girlish, too annoyingly fragile.

That said, this was the strongest collection the designers have shown since they took over the house. The Valentino essence was all there in the pale yellows and greens, the jolt of red and splash of pink; the wool crepe suits with vented sleeves closed with tiny bows; and the careful, up-to-date mixture of airy fabrics with more structured garments. Valentino himself loved excess, and knew how to manage it. He knew what he was doing, one felt, most of the time (and he would have considered “fragile” too lame).

Until now, Ms. Chiuri and Mr. Piccioli have been sort of experimenting with the Valentino codes, and while one wants to see young clothes, a lot of their ideas have looked immature. They are better now (clearer anyway) at conveying excess on their terms — with those wide flounces or a lace yoke – and their most appealing dresses had some sort of sort transparent layer.

nytimes.com

 

[apriliciate]

only likes, frida's dress and the flower one.. the rest..... not quite sure...
i like the detail shots, but too simple...

 

[Versace-Goddess]

I must now say i like it now, the last part of the collection is even very beautiful. The softness is so lovely.

 

[missnyc]

The mini dresses reminds me of Prada and Miu Miu. I love the collection, but not as Valentino. Where's red? Seriously, I wonder if Pier Paolo and Maria Grazia know that red was a basic colour in Valentino. I miss Mr. Garavani...

 

[tiffany]

HAUTE COUTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not my favourite but very pretty nonetheless

 

[dazzling85]

Some pretty pieces & I think so far this is one of their better collections.
The cage dress did not make sense but the mini red dress which looked like blocks/layers was pretty and some of the long gowns.

 

[MagFan]

video: http://videos.madame.lefigaro.fr/video/iLyROoaf86jC.html

 

[Dkammern]

Hmmm...for some reason this reminds me too much of Alessandra's first and only Couture collection, and for that, it makes me furious!

It's insultingly similar to Alessandra's work. From the first pics, it screams alessandra! only this misses the accurate delicacy that she gave to her work. It was all porcelain-doll-ballerina, while their style, or this collection, is a bit more 'bruta'

so now what? if they fired Alessandra for doing this sort of thing... they're gonna fire them too? that would be nice perhaps!
This way they could chose someone that doenst change his mind every season about who the Valentino woman is....
first it was reverential and submissive to the archives, then it went all young and girlish...
they tried fluo next, and now this!!

seriously!! whatever happened to core values...

 

[fiqary]

Well the make up looks is really nice. All the models look beautiful. I don't get the cage dress.

 

[Flashbang]

Paris Haute Couture: Valentino autumn/winter 2010/11 collection

The dresses were light and fragile, the embroidery a major homage to the Valentino legacy, but in every other respect this delicate collection was directed at a new Valentino generation of clients, reports Hilary Alexander.
By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at Paris Haute Couture Week
Published: 11:31AM BST 08 Jul 2010

The dresses were light and fragile, the bows and embroideries and hand-beading a major homage to the Valentino legacy, but in every other respect this delicate “baby-doll” collection was directed at a new Valentino generation of customers.

The little black dresses in silk gazar, the little smock-shapes in cream double-faced satin or red organza, the ballet crinolines, in blush organza, and the trapeze coats in ivory double crepe, all finished high on the thigh-perfect for the young, long-legged beauties who wore them on the runway, and the young, long-legged and rich who watched from the front rows.

In this, the duo of Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli’s fourth haute couture outing for the Valentino label, there was a definite evolution towards a more confident, recognisable signature.

The collection was named “The dark side of first love”, suggesting, perhaps, some inspiration, at least, from the “Twilight” phenomena of books and movies.

Black Chantilly lace trapeze-trenches and little black dresses in guipure certainly had an air of the chic, young Goth, especially when accessorised with black leather “sockettes”, trimmed with a row of bows up the backs of the legs.

The bow was a recurrent motif, mostly used to create a sense of drama and design detail as the models walked away – a silk chiffon bow, for example, trailing down from the nape of the neck, on a high-collared “baby doll”, finishing the hem of a long, trained gown, tied, in a series of bows over a backless “doll” dress, or used, in place of seams along the outer edges of a jacket sleeve.

The bow was repeated, as a large decoration on tiny leather mittens, and on the pointy-toes of crystal and feather-embellished kitten-heel mules.

“Cage” dresses, in boned gazar, which enclosed the models in a spherical cocoon-hands inside - were more difficult to decipher, although there was no doubting the delicacy, care, love and passion which had produced the remarkable embroideries in coral, jet, silver and gold, mingled with crystals and flowers.

telegraph.co.uk

 

[Botnus]

Ew. No. Just No.

That red dress is so Valentino which is why loved it. The other thing i can tolerate is Siri's green mini dress... but that is all about it.

 

[lilach]

just wondering how many parents of the clearly aimed customer here is willing to pony up the cash for it. i see it it will be worn but not bought just lended to some "socialites"or "celebrity" at one or the other dubious "event"

 

[BibiRose]

I don't know... This collection reminds me many other designers previous collections, to be honest.

 

[Merryhussel]

I tought it was a bit odd at first.Especially when I saw jac's look but I really like some of the dresses, like th red one and the one with the black roses on the wrists and top.

 

[Donatello89]

this is couture, for sur !!!! even if, like murad, it maybe plays the game of "princass & co" a bit too much. but there are really great things

 

[L.A.Woman85]

i think my main problem with these 2 designers is they have completely left the 'Valentino' aesthetic behind. i think when taking on an established label you have to remain true to the brand (think Chanel and Karl).

i think they should have started their own line, and then they could have done ANYTHING they like, cause there would be no expectation or image for them to uphold.
there is nothing Valentino about this collection.