Valentino Couture Fashion Show F/W ‘09
Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2009
Can I be any more of a Facchinetti/Valtentino fangurl?
For the first time, Alessandra Facchinetti seemed less reverential and willing to experiment and step outside the Valentino house iconography. This is her first haute couture collection, but she has had a year to cut her teeth on resort and ready-to-wear and this collection showed that she was certainly ready to step out of the shadow of Valentino’s retirement.
Like a kid in the atelier candystore, she played with shape, texture, and for the first time, took Valentino in a very personal direction. Red dresses still made an appearance, but it was a more subtle nod to the past than in previous collections.
Where her previous collections were a bit of an homage to the departing master, this haute couture collection seemed totally Faccinetti.
Valentino purists will have to get used to the New Jack, but I love the way she’s shaking up the house a bit while still giving us the feminine shapes.
Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2009
