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StyleWomen<br />
VALENTINO<br />
Haute Couture Winter <strong>2018</strong><br />
The authentic value of Haute Couture<br />
cannot be visible. The most precious<br />
of the creations will never be able to<br />
enclose the frame of time employed in<br />
the Atelier where the value itself came<br />
to life. In this drive to push oneself<br />
beyond the conspicuous, Haute Couture<br />
expresses a sacred notion, meant to be<br />
perceived as something that oversteps<br />
reality.<br />
Rituals that repeat. Gestures that exalt.<br />
Iconographies that mutate.<br />
Dressing for the day, of ciating a liturgy<br />
made of colors and density, a research of<br />
harmony in the dissonance that reaches<br />
its climax in the absolute black. Forms<br />
simplify, reaching a hieratic simplicity.<br />
They add up and overlap, following a<br />
new idea of dressing. Immediate, but<br />
thought after, it reveals its identity with<br />
each layer.<br />
Signs that dress and communicate: the<br />
solemn cape that embraces, the modest<br />
hood that veils, sensual openings that<br />
reveal. The tactile lushness of the inlays<br />
and the renunciation full of grace of the<br />
denied embellishment.<br />
Sacred love, profane love. Quivering<br />
delicacies and composed re nements.<br />
Vices that adorn and decorate, virtues<br />
that uplift and purify.<br />
A Haute Couture that elevates itself,<br />
nding its reason of being in today,<br />
beyond the apparent.<br />
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