Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli adopted Diana Vreeland’s famous phrase: “The eye has to travel” for Valentino’s Spring 2016 collection.
The collection is tactile, patterned, intense, and experimental. Everything is based upon intricate weaves and layering. The flowing, sleek silhouette is embellished with gored inserts, drop waists, and bell sleeves.
The color palette is a combination of desaturated nuances: sherbet shades of mint green, melon, and tangerine, touches of nude, beige, and dark brown, splashes of dark red, penicillin green and black.
Costume jewelry and accessories are essential elements used as idiosyncratic touches: hard stones adorn handbags, necklaces and earrings. Floral motifs are created in fragile, light filigree. Unexpected nuances are used on boots, and garland-like jewelry decorates sandals.
