{"id":38408,"date":"2023-07-04T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T05:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=235573"},"modified":"2023-07-04T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T06:12:35","slug":"giambattista-valli-haute-couture-fall-winter-2023","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/giambattista-valli-haute-couture-fall-winter-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"At Giambattista Valli, a regal display of macro-couture"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Giambattista
PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 03 : A model walks the runway during the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2023-2024 fashion show as part of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on July 3, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Giambattista Valli\u2019s Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2023 outing, it wasn\u2019t the diaphanous white organza cascading beneath a black bustier asymmetrical gown that caught guests\u2019 gaze (above), but rather the deft departure of the high-heel (in a good few early looks, anyway).<\/p>\n

You see, a chintzy stiletto and a voluminous Valli are a symbiotic union as famed as Yves Saint Laurent<\/a> and Nan Kempner, Herm\u00e9s<\/a> and Jane Birkin<\/a>, Sonny and Cher<\/a>\u2014the list goes on. So when Rome-born, Antonioni-influenced Giambattista Valli<\/a>\u2014renowned for his innate ability to create a proverbial full-scale Cinderella dreamscape<\/a>\u2014replaced the heel for a dainty velvet ballet flat<\/em> <\/a>(with a crystal-encrusted bow at its toe, and a neat little buckle) it was as if the main character in our favourite fairy tale suddenly had some glamorous errands to run.<\/p>\n

\"Giambattista
PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 03 : A model walks the runway during the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2023-2024 fashion show as part of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on July 3, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Giambattista
PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 03 : A model walks the runway during the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2023-2024 fashion show as part of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on July 3, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Giambattista
PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 03 : A model walks the runway during the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2023-2024 fashion show as part of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on July 3, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Giambattista
PARIS, FRANCE – JULYN 03 : A model walks the runway during the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2023-2024 fashion show as part of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on July 3, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yes, to be on a fly on the wall at Valli\u2019s new headquarters in Paris would make for fanciful literature, and the House\u2019s Haute Couture FW23<\/a>\u2019s a statement chapter. Reams of Lacroix-style gathered silk were dramatically reconfigured one hundred ways and streamed down the cream-carpeted runway on July 3, a pathway hemmed in by the likes of Kathy<\/a> and Nicky Hilton<\/a>, Olivia Palermo<\/a>, Mathilde Pinault and Camila Cabello<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Silk was delicately draped off-the-shoulder of many gowns with a handful seamlessly shaped by a structured crinoline and layers-upon-layers of organza. It was indeed the reoccurrence of such understructures which played into this Victorian-era-meets-modern-day-couture moment, partly expected given Valli\u2019s fervent belief that modernity is rooted in classicism. Elsewhere, balloon sleeves, ostrich feathers, embellished lace, and a fringed metallic jumpsuit in silver.<\/p>\n

\"Giambattista
PARIS, FRANCE – JULYN 03 : A model walks the runway during the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2023-2024 fashion show as part of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on July 3, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Giambattista
PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 03 : A model walks the runway during the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2023-2024 fashion show as part of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on July 3, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Giambattista
PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 03 : A model walks the runway during the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2023-2024 fashion show as part of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on July 3, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Giambattista
PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 03 : A model walks the runway during the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2023-2024 fashion show as part of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on July 3, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The final look, modelled by model and member of the non-reigning Greek Royal family, Olympia of Greece, was core Valli; a sequinned heart-shaped bustier, and an explosion of rosettes in pale pink pliss\u00e9 tulle.<\/p>\n

Importantly, the Royal was in heels. A fairy tale ending to this Valli instalment.<\/p>\n

\"Giambattista
PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 03 : A model walks the runway during the Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2023-2024 fashion show as part of the Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on July 3, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Victor VIRGILE\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Watch the show below, or at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n