Valentino Haute Couture fall-winter 2015-2016 collection

A small number of collections per day within the framework of the Haute Couture Week is very convenient for both journalists and guests of the Fashion Week. You can relatively calmly pay attention to each collection.

Finally, we take a look at the Valentino couture collection. The Valentino collection is the most anticipated at Haute Couture Week, but this time the creator of the brand Valentino Garavani and its current designers Maria Grazia Curie and Pierpaolo Piccioli held the show not in Paris, but in the eternal city - Rome.

Therefore, Ancient Rome became one of the main themes of the collection. In the collection you can see toga dresses, graphic ornaments, gold outfits with ornaments and gold leaves, as well as massive gold jewelry symbolizing wealth and power. The designers did not forget one of the main symbols of the Roman Empire - the eagle. One of the dresses is decorated with the image of an eagle holding a red ribbon in its beak.

In addition to the Roman Empire, designers were inspired gothic, especially relevant in the autumn-winter 2105-2016 season, thanks to this, most of the dresses and other outfits in the collection have acquired black color. Even dresses in the style of fairy nymphs and Roman goddesses, which are often white, have turned black.

How is it possible to combine the style of Ancient Rome and the later Gothic? Rome is associated with white clothes and enlightenment, and Gothic with dark temples, castles of cruel feudal lords and the Middle Ages, where there was very little room for light. In fact, the Roman Empire was no less brutal than the Middle Ages. Let us recall the persecution of Christians, mass executions and torture, gladiatorial battles and many other atrocities. Therefore, Ancient Rome and black match perfectly.

The designers did not forget the red color, so beloved by Valentino, which has acquired a new meaning in this collection and now symbolizes not love, but the power of emperors. Ancient Rome and at the same time the blood of tortured Christians and gladiators.

In addition to dresses and other outfits, gladiator sandals are an important part of the collection, because they are associated with the Roman Empire and perfectly complement the image. This is why the new Valentino collection features gold and black gladiator sandals, despite the fact that the collection was created for the fall / winter 2015-2016 season.