Valentino Haute Couture S/S 2013 Paris

[ChristyLeReveur]

Lol Valentino's designs are always the same, whether it's RTW or HC. But it's indeed very beautiful and dreamy. I would buy the whole collection if I had the money.

 

[Littleathquakes]

I'll take a one note considering everyone else seems to be tone deaf

Hi^5

This is a beautiful collection. And I think there is something different here...it doesn't have that matronly older fashionista look to it like past efforts post-Mr Valentino.

And the amazing cast.

 

[Nymphaea]

Mood board Valentino Haute Couture 2013

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[Melly5525]

Stunning collection, esp love the red dresses and the last 4 gowns, so ethereal and lovely. Would love to see some of these on the red carpet at the Oscars.

 

[Wolkfolk]

It's beautiful, and wearable and more than perfectly made but I find almost insulting and stupid the way they can recreate almost each season the same silhouette and aesthtetic and get away with it. I know many designers work with the same vocabulary each season, some of my favourites like Alber Elbaz are specialists of that but at leats they try to build something new around it, add new words to this vocabulary, new flavours to what they offer. You can keep the essence of you work but still be inspiring. It doesn't mean that you always have just spit in our face the same old dresses because it's pretty, all Hollywood wears it and it sells because it's so wearable. I honestly feel like I'm always one big variation of the same couture collection over and over and over again. I always want to be indulgent with them, but it's starting to really piss me off.

 

[Thefrenchy]

Don't you think they must sell super well if they keep repeating the same designs? I mean, you don't do twice something that didn't work...

 

[Razzer]

oh thank god for this collection, finally a couture collection that I love! Everything is beautiful

 

[KemAlnagdy]

I think the idea behind designing clothes is to create good clothes, Valentino's look good and are good when it comes to quality, so they got the job done! Would love morenneew designs though!

 

[abadonna]

so so beautiful... as always!

 

[liberty33r1b]

wwd review

Parks are officially the hottest things in high fashion. After Chanel’s forest set and Dior’s undulating boxwoods, Valentino creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli also took their couture collection down the garden path.
This is neither a judgment nor a slight. Gardens are glorious, and the Roman duo nourished their theme with a distinctive Italian touch, from the spaghetti-like embroideries coiled on coats and dresses — echoing the curlicues on fancy metal gates and grills — to the imposing line of coronation robes that they built into minimalist gowns, a nod to the royals depicted in paintings by Italian masters.
When a model stepped into the room sheltered by a black, birdcagelike cape made out of fabric tubes, the audience burst into spontaneous applause. The show was breathtaking. Chiuri and Piccioli are cultivating an intoxicating, covered-up approach to fashion that seduces with fragility and feminine grace, not skin.
Yet the spare precision cuts were resolutely modern. Sculpted, just slightly off-the-shoulder necklines gave a futuristic gloss to otherwise prim luncheon suits and coats, some bearing hawthorn embroideries. One long-sleeve gown in a glossy wool was blushed with a faint rose color and was void of detail but for a high, budlike neckline that cradled the head, the fabric peeling open ever so slightly at the back like petals.
The designers went well beyond flowers for their garden escapade, using hedge labyrinths as a template for arranging strips of lace on a flaring Fifties skirt, or imagining dresses that could convey a park at night. They captured this idea poetically with a frothy bustier, the skirt a fog of black tulle embroidered with an outline of silvery birds flitting against a night sky. According to the program notes, it took 600 hours in the atelier. Backstage, Piccioli said he and Chiuri wished to convey lightness and the beauty of a garden, forgetting the labor that goes into creating the pieces.
At the end of the show, house founder Valentino Garavani — whose castle in Wideville, France, is said to boast more than a million roses — stood to his feet and embraced his two successors with visible emotion. They are tending to his fashion legacy magnificently.

 

[jemina]

I can't decide if I like this or not.

 

[Lolajazz]

These dresses are sooooo desirable ...

 

[Chiara 92]

Do you guys have a picture of this dress without the jacket?
Thanks in advance.

stylebistro

 

[dazzling85]

Boring collection and nothing new to the previous but the finishing and quality of work is to be given credit. Its just so well made.