GIAMBATTISTA VALLI: Joyful Excess for Haute Coutue Fall 2022 PFW

Giambattista Valli delivered “joyful excess” for its Haute Couture Fall 2022 show at the Paris Fashion Week runway and here are some highlights! Photos shot backstage by Sonny Vandevelde.

“Valli most certainly knows how to entice a girl have a good time. The opening all-white looks—“simple” in his mind—were a glorious parade of ostrich and crystal-trimmed dresses, accessorized with fabulously oversized mirrored butterfly sunglasses and giant glittery chandelier earrings. To match, there were puffed-up hair-extensions lacquered and beribboned in homage to the aristo-dos concocted by Mr. Kenneth of New York and Alexandre de Paris.

Valli’s superb command of techniques got him, an Italian, elected by the powers that be in Paris as a worthy member of the haute couture fashion week a long time ago. He reminded us of exactly why that was the case as he treated us to a bravura demonstration of flou, opera coats made entirely of curled feather, tiny dresses that were mostly made of swags of crystal necklaces, dense silver and paillette embroidery, and crunchy looking 3-D flower embroidery.” -Vogue