Valentino goes back to the roots of Creative Director Pierpaolo Piccioli! Preparing to hold the autumn 2022 Haute Couture fashion show in Rome, Valentino announced that the show will take place on July 8 at Piazza Mignanelli, close to the house’s headquarters and the Spanish Steps. “Rome is where it all begins, life, people, stories and personalities,” Piccioli told Women’s Wear Daily. “We belong here and to Valentino, just as this place belongs to the world,” Piccioli added.
Mayor of the Italian capital, Roberto Gualtieri, in a joint statement issued by Valentino and the city of Rome, “Rome with a fashion show declaring its uniqueness I want to thank Maison Valentino for his return to . With its architectural and artistic marvels, this city is the best place to host the Italian Maison de Couture style established in Rome, which carries Italian values to the whole world. With this amazing event, Rome returns to the center of the international fashion scene.” Saying that the Valentino couture fashion show will be the beginning of activities that will continue throughout the city, Onorato is determined to bring Rome under the spotlight again. the Autumn 2020 couture fashion show to a small group of editors during the pandemic. The show featured a stunning video shot by Nick Knight, followed by 15 white dresses that Mariacarla Boscono and Vittoria Ceretti wore on swings and high platforms hanging from the ceiling.
Piccioli, who broadcast his couture show digitally with the pandemic wave in Italy in January last year, finally returns to a physical and magnificent fashion show. . At the time when Valentino was designed by hjem Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri, Piazza Mignanelli in Rome was also the location for Valentino’s Fall 2015 fashion show, as it coincided w ith the “Mirabilia Romae Diffused” exhibition that emphasized ties to Rome.
