Of late, fashion’s cardiogram has featured dramatic peaks and valleys. This morning it was activated by the news that Pierpaolo Piccioli is leaving Valentino. The Roman joined the house in 1999 and designed accessories there through 2008 when, with Maria Grazia Chiuri, he became co-creative director; he has flown solo since 2016 when she joined Christian Dior.
“For me, it’s about more than clothes,” Piccioli said at the time of his spring 2019 couture collection for Valentino, at which he recreated a famous 1948 Cecil Beaton photograph of Charles James dresses using only Black models. The past coexists with the present in Rome, and Piccioli honored the house heritage at the same time that he asserted his own codes.
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