“I was very impressed by the part when Orlando loses his mind for love, and his best friend has to go to the moon to recover his sanity,” Piccioli said in a preview on Place Vendôme on Friday afternoon. “It’s important, because the moon is the place where you can find what is lost in the heart. I like this idea of the moon as a second opportunity.”

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“We came all this way to explore the moon,” he recited, “and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.” Piccioli is sensitive to his surroundings, forever on his own intergalactic mission of the soul to find answers and solutions to the problems we face as earthlings. This season was no different.

“That’s more about escaping. I like parallel universes,” he explained.

He looked to the costumes Piero Tosi designed for Federico Fellini’s Tommy Dammitin 1968, capturing the Space Age mentality of the era – a look Paco Rabanne distilled and bottled. It manifested itself most literally in a silver grey ball gown embellished with transparent disc sequins, referencing one of Tosi’s costumes. “They give a different light to something known,” Piccioli mused of the shiny paillettes.

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Anyone who watched this show on the 26th of January, in Paris,  left dreaming of Olympus, the wistfulness heightened by the fact that the new straight silhouette looked so easy to wear: long, languorous and demure, and worn with flat sandals, it transmitted such stark, stunning purity that it made almost every other show on the couture schedule look excessively laboured.

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Naturally, such purity belied the superhuman efforts of the Roman atelier, whose quivering rouches of fabric were an intricate blend of jersey and silk, plaiting and pleating, exquisite hand-beading shrouded in gossamer.

The colour palette drew on the mystic pastels of the French symbolist painter Odilon Redon: pistachio green, ballet slipper pink, pale daffodil and clotted cream. Pierpaolo Piccioli, however, in his first solo couture outing, knows some women want high-octave.

And so there was a metallic Barbara Cartland pink pleated number, another constructed of a series of shell-pink folds of delicate chiffon, another in deep crimson, gathered high and dramatic at the throat and left to trail suggestively. All championed a sort of nobility via covering up, the very opposite of the slashed, sexy gowns that some Oscar hopefuls may well end up wearing on 26 February.

…Dreaming big demands the material equivalent.

An amazing Collection by  Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino.

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