Giambattista Valli: Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear

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I thought it was amazing.

Form is there, poetry s there.

We don t need anything more than that.

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Today is the fifth birthday of Giambattista Valli s label

and he gave himself a hell of a present.

The attitude this woman, it s about being in love.

So I look into this collection

through the eyes of Jacqueline Picasso.

[Tim] Eccentricity, eclecticism, and ethnicity.

That gives you a lot to work with

when you re designing a face.

[laughs] That s a lot to try and get in.

The Brancusi thing, what we ve done is a very strong brow.

It s architecture, it s a shape, it s a line.

And then with the mouth, it s a girl that s been kissing.

[Sasha] Girl in love. [laughs]

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[Tim] Why do you think he s captured the imagination

of a young clientele so absolutely?

Well, I love all those little dresses

and the feathery skirts and the all leopard looks.

Next summer I m only wearing Giambattista, I ve decided.

To have all this fringe and with animals.

Tie and dye fringe and with carpeting.

[Tim] But this is so you as well.

You re always taking people to fun places late at night.

I love, my idea is to have fun to wear them.

[Tim] It s just so upbeat.

And I think it s what we all need right now, no?

But you better have a great pair of legs.

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If you put one of those dresses on, you have an entrance.

Especially with all the feathers

and the fringes and everything.

Fantastic.

He makes a woman dream.

His dresses make a woman feel great.

I got like an old mature dress and I cut it off

and then we put some feathers coming out from Cameroon hats

and having this kind of tribal, ethnic, but couturey,

and in love kind of likeness.

[Tim] It was inspired by Brancusi, Picasso, and Man Ray.

Eccentricity, ethnicity, eclecticism.

And those three artists embody that for him.

Well, it s time for the painters to look at a designer

when he has that sense of form

and poetry like Giambattista does.

I come from Rome where you can find in a square

a Baroquen church, Egyptian obelisks

and then a fascist building, is such an eccentricity on.

Curiosity s my muse, so I want to experiment.

Well, I m not afraid to mix the things, to have colors.

Never afraid.

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