The Beauty of Technical Elegance: Valentino L’Ecole SS24
Runway photos courtesy of Valentino / Street Style & Arrivals by Graham Land/VRAI Magazine
The beauty of nature reimagined via a new technique, combined with the purity of white is the essence of the latest Valentino Spring/Summer 2024 “L’Ecole” collection unveiled at Paris Fashion Week.
Creative Director Pierpaolo Piccioli explores the beauty of sensuality and the female body in the latest collection. A cut-out motif runs throughout the collection and is created by a new technique named Altorilievo (High Relief) — sculptural fabric in seamless three-dimensions that create naturalistic forms from Baroque foliage, fruit, flowers and animals. The result is the incorporation of the most elegant peek-a-boo moments, revelations of skin in the most artful and elegant manner.
Contrasting the intricacy of the new Altorilievo technique, Piccioli once again introduced the simplicity of t-shirts, jeans and simple, yet tailored structure, but once again creating understated elegance.
The collection, which started out in a white opening look modeled by Kaia Gerber, moved into pale pastels, forest green, burgundy, and then ended in deep red hues and black, once again displayed Piccioli’s brilliance for the season to come. Fashion doesn’t have to be over-the-top, it simply has to be sublime in its vision and execution.
Attended by a star-studded front row including Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield, Simone Ashley, Penn Badgley, Usher, Cher, Maude Apatow, Charles Melton and more, the fashion show included an interpretive dance performance by FKA Twigs.
