PFW SS15: Giambattista Valli

Giambattista Valli is a designer who likes to freight his designs with as much concept as crafting a single garment can take. This comes down to his couture backbone and because of this, he succeeds were others...

Candle club

    In A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf famously argued that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Not to trivialise the important argument in the ear...

PFW AW14: Giambattista Valli

So red was the rose at Giambattista Valli yesterday in Paris, where the designer signalled unashamed femininity with a collection that shunned the masculine menswear mode that we have all become accustomed to t...

Giambattista Valli Spring/Summer Couture 2014

Fresh, youthful and spontaneous were the key words of Giambattista Valli’s couture show this season. Valli kept in line with his traditional botanical motifs and rich, sweeping fabrics, but reinterpreted them i...