Valentino Haute Couture Fall 2014

Empire line, sweetheart necklines, dipped back gowns of heavy damask silk and spiderweb lace. Bubbling pearl sea foam and encrusted beaded arterial coral, embroidered full length bed jackets spliced with applique, fur and gold foil. Brocade, ermine, velvet, boiled wool, tweed, latticework lace. Conté sketches and seemingly heavy upholstery brocades rendered entirely in miniature beads.
 

Yet another achingly beautiful, angelic, princess fairy tale collection from Valentino. 

Images from the wonderful vogue.it.

Valentino Haute Couture Spring 2013 Details

My love for the Valentino Haute Couture Collection knows no bounds. I was so happy to have stumbled upon the live stream by complete chance and will confess to having watched it twice. Interesting to note: according to Tim Blanks review '...the duo [Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli] enumerated the human cost in the show notes that sat on everyone's seats' One such labour-intensive 'artisanal effort' was a tulle and gauze dress, scrolled and enveloped with a lattice cage of rolled piping, which -as noted by Blanks- 'According to the notes, it took 500 hours of hand-rolling to produce the piping.'

Photo credits: Vogue.it Gianni Pucci / Gorunway / Indigital

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So dreamy!

Valentino Haute Couture by Deborah Turbeville for Vogue Italia

Models - Maud Welzen, Cora Emmanuel, Josephine Skriver, Montana Cox, Antonina Vasylchenko, Clarice Silva Vitkauskas and more

Seen at Visual Optimism