Tatler’s fashion correspondent Rosana Lai jetted to Italy for the star-studded show over the weekend—here’s what she saw
It was a show that ended couture week on a high. At Valentino’s autumn/winter 2022 haute couture show, which took place on July 9, the fashion house eschewed their usual spot in Paris Couture Week and instead staged a homecoming of sorts: the collection was showcased on a 600-metre catwalk that connects the Spanish Steps, a landmark of the city of Rome, to Valentino’s headquarters in Piazza Mignanelli, which is a stone’s throw away. At the top of the Spanish Steps is the location of Valentino Garavani’s original house of couture, which he founded in 1959.
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“Rome is the place where everything began,” says Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli. “We belong to this place as much as this place belongs to the world—and to Valentino.”