“The only way to make couture alive today is to embrace different women’s identities and cultures.”
, he took it a step further with his latest collection, championing race and age diversity on the couture runway. “The only way to make couture alive today is to embrace different women’s identities and cultures,” Piccioli toldHis fall 2019 couture offering was inspired by Avedon portraits, Guy Bourdin advertising shots, canvases by the Italian Renaissance mannerist Rosso Fiorentino, and paintings of Diana Vreeland’s documentary.
And in what might have been the most touching move, Piccioli celebrated the individuals who made the collection possible, the atelier staff, inviting them to walk the runway and pause at the end to kiss and say thank you to Valentino, the man who founded the house.
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