Valentino Haute Couture Spring 2015
Love is in the air — or at least it was at Valentino's spring couture show. Creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli took inspiration from classic artists and literary greats, including William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, and Marc Chagall, a modernist painter whose Russian landscapes heavily inspired the first half of the collection. "In some ways, you are flying when you're in love," Chiuri said of the romantic collection that featured ethereal, hand-painted tulle dresses adorned with clouds and stars. Other pieces featured intricate embroidery (including one gown that took a grand total of 3,000 hours to create) and delicate script — lines from poems, sonnets and songs. The finale gown, one of the more simple dresses in the line-up with its linen corset and dusty blue skirt, featured red script scrawled across the bodice that summed up the theme of the whole collection in one simple line: "Amor Vincit Omnia" — love conquers all.