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Valentino Fall Winter 2023

Valentino Fall Winter 2023

Valentino Fall Winter 2023

Pier Paolo Piccioli presents the Valentino Fall Winter 2023 collection in Paris. The show was titled, Black Tie.

Show Set, Valentino FW23

Collection Notes

Black Tie. Here, a literal description, a codification, not a code.

An instruction can become an invitation, a dress code can liberate, limitation can free. Equally, universal symbolism can be open to reinterpretations, redefinition. Archetypes can be re-imagined, and a power in the familiar can come from its rediscovery in a new context.

Valentino FW23 Group Shot
Valentino FW23 Group Shot

Cultural Capital

For Fall/Winter 2023, Pierpaolo Piccioli takes black tie at face value, a figure of speech for a collection that builds around pieces drawn from every day. Conjecture and cultural capital are inverted – a symbol of masculine power, an emblem of orthodoxy and restriction, our preconceptions of the tie become theoretical architecture for a collection that toys with rules, emancipating meaning. Its ideological conceit is challenged, ultimately contradicted and redefined entirely.

Valentino, FW23 show
Valentino, FW23 show

Details

Signifiers are re-appropriated, transforming into different garments: the tie is untied, unfettered, sliding between the form language of clothes, between day and evening. The shirt and tie may fuse, morphing into diverse permutations of dresses and gowns, while those garments true are worn with long or short skirts, by men and women alike.

Backstage, Valentino FW23
Backstage, Valentino FW23

A focus on tailoring, the pragmatism of daywear and a pared-back palette emphasizes dynamism, activity and modernity. These coexist with the heritage of Maison Valentino, its own distinct vocabulary — Couture gestures, graphic pattern, superlative craft — and foundational values. Alongside, a future heritage: the Rockstud, first introduced in 2010, becomes a punctuation throughout the show, on Valentino Garavani shoes and accessories. An aesthetic double speak, of history and the contemporary, renaissance and punk, is a demarcation of the multifaceted identity of Valentino today.

Valentino Fall Winter 2023
Backstage, Valentino FW23

Conventions Destroyed

A societal tool of conformity, uniformity becomes a lens to enhance humanity, to accentuate personae. Homogeny, rather than stripping away individuality, can form a frame for each human being, similarities enhancing differences, amplifying nuance. In the same way that the meaning of black tie is shattered and reassembled with new definition, our perception of uniform is reconsidered, conventions destroyed.

Finale, Valentino FW23
Finale, Valentino FW23

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Valentino Fall Winter 2023 Collection

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