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The evening parade of Valentino yesterday was probably the most anticipated event of the day. Pier Paolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri were expected on the test bench. So much success in RTW, as is usually the uncertainty in Haute Couture. Couturier must be like their Master, sitting ringside as a spectator to admire a collection that arouses just two very contrasting emotions: love at first sight or total uncertainty.

In a hushed atmosphere, remember ancient palaces, adorned with candid curtains, the parade of Valentino’s begins with a mood clearly inspired by Nineteen Century, bringing the catwalk clothes with too simple muslin and velve. In this sometimes trivial simplicity, alternate outfits are reminiscent of the paintings of Marc Chagall, famous Russian painter 800, later naturalized French.

Corsets worn as outwear heads, richly embroidered jackets worn over light clothing lengthen the silhouette, giving the allure of agility and movement, but there seems to be an inherent contradiction that does not belong to the house, there is the ease and elegance that the describes love at first sight.

And it is the love the inspiration that shows in the leitmotif of this collection, a hymn not perfectly received.

In the end, everything changes, everything is questioned, interruption net, two souls contrasting that this time are not harmonized. And down the catwalk go princely clothes, finely and richly decorated, voluptuous and elegant, carrying the viewer exactly where he wanted to be from the beginning: in a fairy tale.

Love is the theme of the most celebrated theme and used by artists of all kinds, reaching great heights of art, but most of the time is celebrated in a cloying who is lost in the anxiety of wanting to do and can not, as in this. Then the song of Lorenzo Jovanotti “A Te” is played: beautiful but out of tune with the environment and with the tale.