J’aime Giambattista Valli. Tempered GV!

It began with next spring must-have high-waisted shorts and black tunic and ended with thousand meters of tufted tulle gown sweeping the runway.

Tempered, very tempered GV style!

Giambattista Valli:

It’s about a metamorphosis. There’s a big change going on in these times.”

With this he brought some airy mystery, just a very slight one, to Milan Fashion Week.

Certainly, GV has attracted a gilt-edged list of celebrity clientele since he established his own label in 2005.

Penelope Cruz, Victoria Beckham, Hilary Swank, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mischa Barton, Cameron Diaz, all wear his clothes.

Among his high profile guests there were Natalie Portman and Emma Watson sitting in the front row. I totally see the two wearing the feminine, yet partying works.

Guipure lace and hopsack, faded-and-flaking wallpaper prints are the 50’s style dance dresses.

Neat to the waist and flaring out into teacup circle skirts.

Valli pointed that he wanted to make his silhouettes correspond faithfully to his sketches.

But in reality, you can take off the petticoat, and it’s just a nice godet skirt.”

Giambattista has become a phenomenon in fashion and Hollywood. He exploded out of Paris several years ago when Angelina Jolie chose one of his early dresses to wear for a photo shoot. It happened to be the W Magazine shoot with Brad Pitt.

Back then Brad rumored to be Ms. Jolie’s lover. It was during the making of the Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

“The vast skirts, ending in long trains, in lilac, cream and beige, could have stepped out of an Italian Old Master painting,” writes Hilary Alexander, of Telegraph.co.uk

“They were composed of literally thousands of minutes, silk chiffon “rosettes” or else a cascade of fingertip-pleated ruffles.”

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