All-White Valentino… Pierpaolo Piccioli drove the Valentino house into a new epoch, where without losing emblematic codes, the wardrobe becomes more accessible.

All-White Valentino: Opening Silhouette

“My challenge is to make the house relevant for the time,” The artistic director of Valentino, Pierpaolo Piccioli, showed the collection of Summer/Spring 2022 in the Carreau du Temple, Paris. However, far from the gold of palaces, he anchors the house to an era of increased democratization of luxury and fashion.

“I’ve been talking for a long time about making a shift, embracing a new generation, a new world. And also to be leading a change. You know, Mr. Valentino took part in engaging with youth in the ’60s. That was a revolutionary time. So I think this is my way of doing that today: keeping the codes and the couture values, and talking about a beauty which is about humanity and a shared wardrobe.”

In this sense, the key look of the Valentino collection of the Spring/Summer 2022 is a direct reference to this famous collection All-White Valentino, 1968. A blouse decorated with organdy flowers and a mini-skirt – the same silhouette, in 1968, was immortalized on the photo of Marisa Berenson.

Through all looks, it is possible to read Valentino codes of the causal couture wardrobe — light taffeta tailoring in bright colors, a plethora of mini dresses, a simple and glamorous play of volumes… We also noticed the introduction of denim, a rare material at the Valentino; a wink at the Valentino codes of the 1980s.

“This is from the first denim collection Valentino launched in the ’80s, which I had,” noticed Pierpaolo Piccioli. The high waist jeans, which symbolize the coming of Valentino to a new era: the down-to-earth era.