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PARIS, FRANCE \u2013 JANUARY 22 : Head shot during the Valentino Haute Couture Spring\/Summer 2020 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 22, 2020 in Paris, France.(Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Valentino Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2020, Pierpaolo Piccioli dove a little deeper. Not quite content with surface level stuff (he is a brilliant mind, after all), he delved into the subconscious, exploring the dream-like quality of Couture as a result of our subliminal workings. \u201cWhen you talk about couture, you talk about dreams, but dreams are the expression of something which is subconscious,\u201d he told Sarah Mower backstage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Piccioli, there’s a difference. Unlike the dresses Karl Lagerfeld dreamed up (Lagerfeld famously said he dreamed his dresses), Piccioli doesn’t dream his designs. “I dream sensations,” he informed Business of Fashion’s<\/em> Tim Blanks<\/a>. With this, a collection unfolded deep in the annals of Pierpaolo Piccioli’s subconscious – not his dreams. \u201cI hate it when people talk about \u2018storytelling.\u2019 I am not a storyteller. I don\u2019t have the feeling that Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga, Saint Laurent, Charles James, Mainbocher, whatever\u2014I don\u2019t feel they had stories of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So today in Paris, a different Valentino Couture. Yes, the color was there – pistachio cr\u00eape, taffy pink turtlenecks, lurid lilac in spades, even a gown drenched in Kool-Aid red – but this collection cultivated a far more mysterious breed of couture. It was Pierpaolo Piccioli’s prodigious volume and saturated color – wrapped in an enigma, both sensual and abstruse.<\/p>\n

New shapes formed – Stella Tennant walked in a black tulle dress which fanned out with fishtail-like effect, while the A-line was explored by way of haute flip skirts in trompe l’oeil bows and mint cr\u00eape and dramatic mermaid gowns. But his signature balloon also made an appearance, as painterly orange goldfish swam on a bell-shaped cape worn by supermodel, Irina Shayk,<\/p>\n

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PARIS, France \u2013 January 22: Model Irina Shayk walks the runway during the Valentino Haute Couture Spring\/Summer 2020 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 22 at Hotel Salomon de Rothschild, 2020 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As always, a lesson in detail, precision and patience. Highlights included extravagant plucked plumes, cummerbund-turned-sashed-bows, exquisite sculptural headpieces, scrolls, rolls and folds so grand and architecturally sound they were a feat unto themselves. Plus, of course, the opera gloves – in citron, cherry, cr\u00e8me – some even with contrast black bows and bulbous flowers at their opening, the operatic long-line glove fast becoming a couture code of Piccioli’s Valentino<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As the Maison put it, “a mystery, hidden from the external world,” but one that Pierpaolo Piccioli unlocked both brilliantly and poignantly.<\/p>\n

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