Valentino's Subversively Elegant Couture

Paris – Valentino's latest haute couture collection was all about empowerment; allowing women to be ladylike yet physically revealing, sophisticated yet ever so seditious.
Presented Wednesday, Jan. 26, in the Solomon Rothschild mansion of central Paris, this spring collection 2011 was hyper chic - cascades of ivory crepe to create to-the-floor dresses, twists of gazar silk fashioned into slim cocktail looks. Yet, thanks to the racy cuts, semi-transparency and generally see-through finish the clothes packed visceral punch.
"To be elegant today you have to be a little subversive. True modern beauty should be a little dangerous," said Pier Paolo Piccioli, after he and design partner Maria Grazia Chiuri had taken their bow, heavily applauded as the marched along the twisting gold parquet runway rambling through three rooms and several passageways.
The collection opened in opaque pristine whites and ivories, but as the show unfurled, few looks failed to reveal some flesh. Over all, the deep gorge cuts of summer lunchtime dresses and exposed skin were somehow ladylike yet racy.
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