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Paris Fugshion Week: Valentino
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Comments (42):
Couture for sister-wives. Blech.
Yeah. Those necklines are pure horror. I’m tired of seeing cleavage down to the belly button, but this is too far in the other direction. Some of this stuff is a head scarf away from being a burka.
It’s a shame, because with a better neckline there’s a lot of gorgeous patterns and shapes here.
So many of those lace dresses would be dramatic and lovely if the underslip were some dramatic color like canary, mandarin, emerald, ruby…. I’m so over the nude/sheer/naked thing.
I’m not a fan of any of these stiff, structured, prim pieces. Can you imagine feeling relaxed in the restrictive collars and itchy looking embroidery on these things?
“This season is all about a social group that has far too long been overloooked by the fashion industry. I speak of the schoolmarm. Well, ladies, your time has come! BEHOLD!”
“Lady Edith is going to look so nice in this at her wedding, after Mr. Bates helpfully murders her beau’s crazy wife for him.”
From your mouth to Julian Fellowes’ ears, Heather.
Agreed! Something has to happen to her. How about she escapes from the asylum and dies of exposure out on the moors? That would be tragic in a soap opera-ish kind of way.
I leaning to the side of liking this collection based purely on the fact it isn’t (for the most part) sheer and lace. The patterns are gorgeous (slide 1, so pretty if it was modified a little) and most of the fabrics looks rich. It also pleases me that 30 strapless dresses weren’t sent down the runway. (Although as Lizzy said, some veer into sisterwife territory.) Im loving the necklines on the Kate Winslet slide 24. Basically, I talked myself into loving it.
I unabashedly love this throwback to more prim times. I love the long silhouettes and the draping and that they’re not boob windows or sheer thighs or buttock showing or gravity defying. Love them. I’m who that Grammy’s wardrobe announcement was catering to.
I have seen WAY too many skinny people this awards and fashion season. WHY?! Why must everyone be so skinny??? There’s been too much cleavage too. Just sayin’.
T-straps mated with spats . . . ugh.
Yeah, what is up with the shoes? They look so strange.
Oh, no! I adore the satin spas under Mary Janes. Especially the blue ones!
why would you ruin perfectly nice t-straps?! that’s the worse crime here.
#16: Diane Kruger. Only she could wear that and look fabulous.
Diane Kruger in slide 9, for me, if that thing were cropped into a mini. Not saying I would like it. Just that I thought of her as soon as I saw it.
Numbers 18 and 24 have a very strong Princess Buttercup vibe.
I’m like this too. I think it’s an over exposure to butt cheeks and boobs that makes this somehow both sisterwife AND refreshing. And the construction and technique are fab.
I actually like the grey and white “pinafore” dress. And much of the rest, when it’s not too Wednesday Addams.
It’s all so terribly twee with the lace and peter pan collars. And not a single true Valentino red dress amongst them. Mr. Garavani needs to un-retire because this line is suffering!
Well, he IS 80, I guess he’s earned a rest! LOL
But it’s a terrible loss for fashion. None of these looks like what I think of as Valentino-quality tailoring… or Valentino-quality fabric… or, well, Valentino-quality anything.
I say shut down the house.
China and Upholstery were the inspiration….re-imagined as Nightgowns.
I don’t get the prim full-length “hostess dress.” I just don’t. If the original Valentino was all about red, the new Valentino is all about the “ethereal” but all too unbecoming hostess dress. I don’t think it looks flattering on anyone and yet we see it season after season. It’s not 1960…or 1512 for that matter. And, it seems the new tweaks on the dress this season are even more unbecoming: bibs and odd looking dickies. It looks like they have a great admiration for art history — I do too — but I have no aspirations to wearing a bib with my ermine or looking like I walked out of a Titian painting.
On the plus side: gorgeous fabrics, beautiful patterns, drool-worthy embroidery. I adore 7 and 28, and if you took the collar and cuffs off, I would wear 29 and 31 in a heartbeat.
My understanding of the hostess dress is that you wear something attractive but not extremely eye-catching. Because, hell, you’re the hostess. How much more attention do you want? Let your guests shine.
Also, modest and comfortable. No one want to wonder if your boobs are going to fall out, as you run around showing people to their places and serving.
While I do think this collection is fantastic, I am getting quite the Wednesday Addams vibe from most of these, like if Wednesday was couture.
Wouldn’t say sisterwife so much as schoolgirl. A lot of these have a very 13 y/o school uniform vibe to them, but with a sort of icky (to me) stab at sex appeal. Basically, not for adult women with some actual curves to them.
By the way, that last slide? Embroidered jumpsuit on the left, not a dress at all. On the basis of that alone, we will see someone wearing it.
I almost like this. I like the romanticism and I’m curious as to how some of this will get worn in real life. I’m not a fan of the wide white satin straps on some of these dresses though.
I love most of this (especially compared with Stella McCartney’s horrors). It’s feminine and elegant and in lovely colours. Evenly the overly prim ones hint at the curves beneath.
Apparently it was inspired by the Flemish masters (i.e.. girl with a pearl earring).
I actually like it. It’s dramatic and interesting .. and the antitoxin of what seems like a decade of Real Housewives of wherever barbie plastic looks and ever risqué-er dresses showcasing boobs and legs… leaving me inured to it all.
I bet this gets traction and we see more dresses like Lily Allen’s and the Valentino stuff here– maybe not with the braids and severe pointed shirt collars…. but with the interesting all over patterns, long dresses (these remind me of the late seventies– without the kitschy orange, gold, brown tones) and slightly gothic vibe….. and a way dialed back overt sexuality. I feel like my IQ just went up looking at these.
The blue pantsuit was horrible.
I also think Zooey Deschanel could wear some of those really twee dresses.
A lot of these were really gorgeous – the fabrics are amazing. I’d like to see them a *little* less prim; I’d be curious to see them styled differently (without the sister-wife braid, and with actual makeup). The colors are lovely. Nothing I can imagine wearing, but then I’m not the target audience, am I? I will enjoy seeing these worn by women with far more glamorous lives, though!
It’s a good collection overall! I love the patterns and especially love dresses #4, 7, 27 & 29! I would love to see Lucy Liu in #2 & Diane Kruger in #16! And, I can also see Chloe Moretz in some of these!
Many of the first round of dresses are very Jane Eyre via a Danish-Swede color story. With #18 and #24, we’re in Anne Boleyn territory.
I feel like this entire collection was made for Keira Knightley.
I feel like this entire collection is essentially the same damn dress.
Delft china, then Queen Elizabeth’s I’s entourage in both adult and children sizes.
And then there’s coat #28. COME TO MAMA!!
I loved a lot of these, especially the shortened versions!!
I so LOVE all of them! The ideas are not super-novel and shocking but the result so so pretty.
#27 is something Angelina Jolie would totally wear. I would love to see Mia Wasikowska in #28 but I fear she would choose the more severe ones instead. Sigh.
Nearly all of these scream Lily Collins to me. Odds are she will wear at least two of them.
Eh, it’s the 1970s, covered-up folkways vibe. You like it, or you don’t.
It can be very pretty (more for day, than evening, IMO), but it has to be done luxuriously, with the velvet and real embroidery, and yes, the Persian lamb. Why would you even bother making dresses like this in all-beige or all-black blah?
It’s surprising the make-up and hair are so dull. These looks used to be shown with dramatic, doll-like make-up and hair. It balances out the look.
I dunno – it seems like the Mulleavy sisters did these dresses a few seasons ago, and a lot better (when thingy, little Fanning was their muse). Very derivative.
There is no penance in the world to absolve AnnE for existing.