giambatista valli

Here is a highlight of the Spring 07 RTW season, Giambatista Valli. His past collections contain peices that have been particularly inspiring to me in my work, and I am beyond pleased and delighted to see that this collection also holds peices of singular beauty and individuality.



















PARIS, October 6, 2006 – When shopping for a trapeze dress next season, you could do worse than seek out Giambattista Valli...the lifelike roses that decorated one short black dress. Inspired by the abstract expressionist Alberto Burri, Valli burned their edges, so that they rustled like fallen leaves as they glided down the runway. "I wanted to portray an intellectual beauty," he said...he requested permission from the Calder Foundation to reprint one of the artist's mobile paintings for an aptly airy bubble skirt that he paired with a collarless, belted jacket. And from art benefactress Peggy Guggenheim, he cribbed rococo sunglasses and pagoda hats.The results skewed more precious than intellectual, but there was no quibbling with the beauty of Valli's mille-feuille organza meringues. If they will need a few extra inches added to their hems to make them red-carpet safe for the likes of Katie Holmes and Victoria Beckham, his front-row guests, that's a minor complaint and one easily solved by this technically accomplished designer. – Nicole Phelps stye.com.