Valentino: Fall 2011 Couture

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The clothes that you see they look effortless

but we can't even imagine how many hours went

into making them.

I mean, I hope nobody went blind sewing all that lace.

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With all the uncertainly in the upper strata

of Au couture recently,

I'm leaving the Valentino show feeling

that the future of couture is in safe hands.

Curious about what drew you to Russia?

We started to read some book about Russian women

and so started the idea.

That there are these women left Russia,

you know a very particular moment

that they arrived in Paris

in '20s when culture was changing.

A lot of them they became muses of artists

and their independence of their mind was very,

something very inspiring to us.

[Tim] The choice of Russia as an inspiration is

kind of intriguing.

Sure, there were references to Belarus

and the gold and the velvet

and I think the pallet of the colors,

but everything was, it's such a lightness.

I definitely felt like a very elegant precious princess

in like a-- I don't know, felt like royalty.

[Tim] I thought that collectsion was sort

of fairy tale princesses.

It established a young take on couture

by essentially doing very old techniques

like little braids and little perfect sort of work with lace

but going backwards to almost '70s silhouettes ,

they made the line look perfect for very young socials.

It was really beautiful.

It was really elegant

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and really delicate and really cinematic in a way.

I really thought it was really regal

and very religious at the same time too.

I sighed, I gasped, I heaved.

People were having audible reactions to these clothes

because they're really the stuff that

that you dream about.

When I was looking at those clothes

I could imagine Audrey Hepburn wearing so many of them

or Grace Kelly.

Whenever you can imagine great women

and style icons wearing the clothes of today

I think that means you've stumbled

onto something wonderful.

[applause]

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