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The Best of Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino in Vogue

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Naomi Campbell in Valentino couture.Photographed by Ethan James Green, Vogue, November 2020 Of late, fashion’s cardiogram has featured dramatic peaks and valleys. This morning it was activated by the news that Pierpaolo Piccioli is leaving Valentino. The Roman joined the house in 1999 and designed accessories there through 2008 when, with Maria Grazia Chiuri, he … Read more

The Couture Jean: A Timeline from 1997 to Kaia Gerber’s Beaded Valentinos

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On paper, there should be a disconnect between haute couture, which is made for the .001%, and work-a-day jeans. Though humble in origin, denim has become so ubiquitous that the authors of Global Denim, a scholarly book on the subject, report, “perhaps the majority of the entire population of this planet is wearing blue jeans … Read more