Valentino Mens S/S 2015 Paris

[CholoChic]

so happy collection

 

[marcBarna]

JUNE 25, 2014
PARIS
By Tim Blanks

Pasolini, Picasso, Cocteau, Kerouac…that's a pretty special posse of male muses. Translating the essence of that wayward crew into clothing seems like a challenge too far. Nevertheless, they were the outsiders and rule breakers who inspired Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli's new collection for Valentino, and, with a little effort, you could detect their perverse contrariness in clothes with a silkily decadent edge. "Silent sedition" was the claim lodged by the show notes. In the context of menswear—"a world of rules," as Piccioli said—the densely decorative nature of the Valentino collection was insinuatingly otherly. Embroidered butterflies, beasts of field and forest, flowers like a starburst of fireworks, symbolist Odilon Redon's deadly blooms—this was scarcely the stuff of an ordinary menswear collection. Neither were the sinuous, pajama-like silhouettes.

Chiuri and Piccioli have carved themselves a substantial niche in haute couture. That's the spirit they want to bring to menswear. Not bespoke, because that's normally about suits, but couture as an experimental forum, an artistic point of view. The first six looks in today's show were couture options, but they were profoundly ordinary: a polo, a K-Way, a trench, and so on. Perhaps that was the point. Customizing something as banal as a polo shirt would truly exalt the individual. But that notion infected the whole collection. The white shirttails that floated out from under sweaters? Cotton, right? Wrong. They were wool as fine as silk. Such numbingly perfect craftsmanship is like a drug. And that tracks back with absolute efficiency to the muses for this collection—driven individuals attempting to escape their doom through an obsession with style. The power of fashion!

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[gossiping]

i love it apart from those butterflies..really they should stay in the womens collection.

 

[LagerfeldBoy]

One of their best collections, tbh. The use of silk and how comfy and loungey some of those looks came off as are perfect for the summer and I love how they come in those quirky, cute prints. My favorite looks were those with the butterfly print jackets styled with jeans and the tail of the shirts peaking through. Those jackets, along with the peacock embroidered jackets, are stunning.

 

[phungnam96]

Yeah I'm in love

 

[Flashbang]

Everything's so sumptuous that I'm thankful there's no Valentino mens store near me otherwise someone has to wipe the drool I left on the window everyday

Who would've known that this duo's (once) little Pitti Uomo project becoming the forefront of the menswear industry