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Oh what a day for a @maisonvalentino show! It felt like Mother Nature radiating good vibes as the breeze blew through the grand halls of Paris’s École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, sending light silk dresses billowing. It was the ultimate environmental enhancement for a show celebrating the beauty found in her creations. Flora and fauna motifs were present, but the female body was a primary focus, with—as Valentino put it—a fundamentally feminist aim of finding comfort in one’s own skin. It was about nakedness as nature, rather than provocation, and a goal of “independence of the body from the male gaze or societal expectation.” There was certainly plenty of skin on display, from micro-micro-miniskirts and dresses with the backs fully excised, to peeks between the appliqué elements of constructed openwork pieces. The openwork technique looked familiar at first, but on closer inspection the pomegranates, birds, and daisies that were pieced together in their signature intarsia technique had another new level of 3-D. They were seamlessly raised from fabric in a new technique Valentino pioneered and is calling “Altorilievo” or “high relief.” They came in wool and denim—the next chapter of denim elevated to couture status following the fully beaded jeans that opened their last haute couture show. All that craftsmanship was grounded by new takes on other wardrobe basics, like the humble t-shirt. Done the Valentino way, they came in silk, elongated into evening gowns, joined by button downs accented with the aforementioned “Altorilievo”. FKA Twigs performed with a bevy of dancers truly showing the beauty of the body, but another song kept coming to mind, The Beatles song “Mother Nature’s Son.” Perhaps it’s a fitting new title for Pierpaolo. #valentino #fashion #pfw #fashionweek #runway #model #fkatwigs #dancer #singer #body #nature #couture #silk #intarsia #technique #instagood #reels #ootd #wiwt #model #green #red #mermaid #daisy #flowers #dietprada