See Poetry in Motion at Valentino’s Fall 2019 Show

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Hey, guys, it's Giselle, backstage at Valentino.

Have fun.

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I'm Pierpaolo Piccioli, we are at

fall/winter Valentino ready-to-wear show.

I started this collectsion thinking of poetry

because poetry, it's kind of similar to couture.

When you think Valentino,

you used to think couture a lifestyle.

I prefer to think about the community of people

that can share values like poetry,

because at the very end,

we all are looking for emotions and dreams.

When I saw The Movement for Emancipation of the Poetry,

which is a movement that celebrate

the power of the words, the power of the poems,

I reflected about this idea.

I work in this collectsion with these four poets,

plus with Jun Takahashi from Undecover

to give it a sort of system of people

talking about romanticism and love in modern times.

When you think Valentino, poetry, romance, love,

you easily can go in such a known territory.

I wanted to go for something

unexpected and something more kind of street wear

because what I love from the movement of the poetry

is that the poetry is in the street, it's not in the book.

And I want to get the couture and the romance in the street,

like a sweatshirt but balance it with the couture coats.

The finale looks, I wanted to deliver

a kind of lightness and romanticism.

No construction and no corset,

just with the ease of a T-shirt

but the beauty and the prettiness of ruffles.

So my name is Mustafa.

Hi guys, I'm Robert Montgomery.

Hi, I'm Greta Bellamacina

and we're here backstage at the Valentino show.

These were new poems submitted by Pierpaolo on love.

I made a large light installation for Pierpaolo's show.

Actually, Pierpaolo chose the text.

It's a piece of mine that says,

The people you love become ghosts inside of you,

and like this, you keep them alive.

It was quite an honor to work with

Pierpaolo on this collectsion.

My pieces were stitched and embroidered

on different dresses and gowns and jackets.

Yeah, I think Valentino's really like,

it always has this air of really old school romance

and I think what he's done this season,

blending the world of poetry into the clothes

really makes this lovely poetic space,

so you find little poems within the garments

and I love that kind of idea of discovering

and I love the idea that a dress can be almost like a book.

When I was thinking about this collaboration,

I was thinking that I wanted love to take

as many forms as possible,

and so on these garments and in all these interpretations,

it was meant to break barriers,

not in the capacity of of which we love,

but the ways in which we love.

I love how the book is almost

like a little French notebook.

And this is something quite timeless and eternal

when you put poetry and bring it into a new space.

Hey.

We're here at Valentino and I'm Janelle Monáe.

I thought it was just stunning.

I love the poetry that was blended in, the music.

Michel, who curated the music, is a friend of mine

and so talented, I just thought it was a perfect marriage.

And the women looked stunning.

I love how diverse it was

just in terms of the types of women

who were representing each look.

As an artist, coming here, seeing this

is deeply inspiring to me.

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