Paris-based designer Giambattista Valli has been charming the fashion world with his couture-like feminine creations. Valli produced his first haute couture collection in 2011 showing in Paris that year. It received critical acclaim. 2011 also saw Valli collaborate with Macy’s for a limited collection. Giambattista Valli is known for his timeless elegance. Offering chic clothes for the jet setter’s lifestyle, some of his ready-to-wear clothes have been likened to couture designs. Valli’s designs are for years, not seasons.
Valli found his palette in a collage of flower markets for SS 23' collection, buildings and landscapes in Asia, and Botticelli paintings, and rendered every exit in its own shade of joy. His emotions materialized in a look that evoked the glamour of the Roman aristocracy in the 1960s. Luxurious, louche and graphic, it was all about colors and trimmings, maxi-earrings, crystal bindis, turbans and big shades. “I always loved the idea of nomadic. But more than ever–and in my country first of all—it’s nice to have no limits; no borders. I want to see the horizon and get inspired by other cultures. Be curious, be nomadic,” he said. Valli demonstrated his hand-spun craftiness in a jacket and shorts covered in a trompe l’oeil print that mimicked bergère before the real deal manifested in various straw dresses woven like bergère.