Model: Estrella Gomez for Valentino Pre-Fall 2022

 

(Image:  Melodie Jeng 2022 for Models.com)

"...Despite Valentino beginning at the cusp of 1960's as an modernist aesthetic, founder Valentino Garavani's iconic fashion house had always retained that Made-in-Italy tailoring and refined sleekness  over the five decades of its inception.  With Piccioli's Pre-Fall 2022 collection drawing from the uniquely U.K 60's subculture known as the Mods, which ironically borrowed and utilized a lot of Italian styling, that held its own distinction as an English symbolism of rebellious youth.  Later morphing into the swinging sixties styles, as a prelude to the 'Hippie' looks that soon followed, to which  Piccioli's latest collection encapsulates those three points of time, under the so called subcultures of fashion..."

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Full review: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/05/valentino-pre-fall-2022.html  (A.Glass 2022)