Pierpaolo Piccioli injected new vitality into Pre Fall 2022 collection, which strengthened the resonance between brand culture and the new-era spirit. Taking the extraordinary quality of haute couture as the core, Piccioli focused on changing the exquisite Italian artisanship into an aesthetic form.

Valentino S/S 2022 collection broke the stereotype and boundaries to launch a new beginning. Upscale materials were combined with creative layers and bright colors for the new haute couture. With the active interpretation of Zendaya, Valentino rebuilt the fashion vision of post-digital age.

Valentino Tiger 1967 collection celebrated the Chinese New Year. Classic tiger stripes were rebuilt to reflect the evolving fashion signal of the brand. Trousers, hoodies, bucket hats, and a series of other pieces paid homage to the traditional culture and delivered best wishes.

Valentino A/W 21/22 collection was joined by the immersive drama "Sleep No More" to bring this fashion show titled "Reborn in Dreams" into a theater. The fusion of fashion performance and drama interpreted this surreal and fantastic Act Collection, creating a dreamland about subversion and rebirth. Led by black and white, this A/W collection also used impressive cutouts, embroideries, checks, laces, dots, and tassels to inject the punk spirit into the elegancy of theater.

The designer Pierpaolo Piccioli decided to get Valentino into a new dimension: life. To mark the return of Valentino's ready-to-wear to Paris, he took over the old marketplace at the Carreau du Temple, and a row of neighboring cafés and restaurants opposite, to put on a joyful all-gendered show reunion symbolically blurring the distinctions between insiders and outsiders. The opening look, an organdy flower-embroidered blouse and tiny skirt, referred to Valentino Garavani's all-white collection of 1968—immortalized in a photograph of Marisa Berenson. There was a reproduction of a slim, tiger-striped maxi coat, famously worn by Veruschka the following year—and to end with, a pair of floaty, flower-printed dresses from the '70s. Designer pitched the production towards embracing Gen Zers with a proposition of a beautiful, casualized couture wardrobe designed to float between genders: lightweight taffeta tailoring in vivid colors, plethoras of dresses from minuscule and cutaway to sweeping, embroidered caftans. The mini-maxi proportion play—like billowy volumes teamed with micro-shorts—provided a translated house glamour that captured everything the TikTok generation might relate to.

The Valentino F/W 2021 Art Collection plays out in dramatic contrasts of black and white, where Son Ye Jin embodies the theatrical energy. Combinations of optical patterns, artisanal embroideries and sharp cutouts become part of unique wardrobe. The Stud Sign bag in hand is rather casual and agile.

Valentino merges its S/S 2021 menswear and womenswear show in a strongly industrial space which is surrounded by plants and flowers, quite romantic. This season Pierpaolo Piccioli wants to convey that the distinct values are the essence of supporting and shaping the brand image, just like industrial architectures, while the aesthetic is only the medium that penetrates everything, just like the flowers and plants that decorate the interior. This time VALENTINO applies intense colors to display its symbolic roses on the invitation. With a core of romanticism, the streamlined or the simple style, chiffon shirts, jeans with five pockets, loose blazers, and the ethereal evening dress all reflect advanced and exquisite cutting in details. Retro prints inject vitality and romance. This series feel warm and cold, romantic and realistic.

In this series, male and female models are in black, grey, classic Valentino red, low-key indigo and emerald. The clothing starts from basic silhouette to highlight the power of accurate cutting. Valentino, which still shows haute couture technique in the ready-to-wear series, is undoubtedly more low-key than previous seasons, but it is still meticulous about details. The series uses embroidery and print to sketch the realistic florals, adding a lively feel to the calm overcoat and the sleeveless dress.

The blockbuster of Valentino Pre-Fall 2020 is shot at the Palazzo Mignanelli in central Rome. In this season, the creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, moderates the rich colors and adopts chromatic lace, textured embroidery and contrasting edges, with flowing sequins to bring a gorgeous visual feast.

In A/W 20/21, Valentino renews its style with lime soda, urban yard and rainforest party. Stronger and stronger street style appears in the brand, which is closely tied to the design director. The brand keeps the classics and creates the fresh.

Valentino S/S 2020 is one of the most expected and spectacular fashion shows and just ends up in Les Invalides. In this new season, it is inspired by the grisaille in 16th century. Grisaille is a special painting technique using one color only. This kind of painting is helpful to view the shape and feel the volume so the shape and volume are very eye-catching without various shadows. This monochrome technique abandons the complicated, inherits the essence, and restores the real look of high fashion.

Valentino -- 19/20 A/W Brand Analysis of Menswear Trunk Show