Party pretty

Written by Dana Karlson
09.03.2010

This season’s sixties flavour is perfectly in-line with Giambattista Valli’s style aesthetic. His is a collection filled with impossibly chic and decidedly feminine cocktail-appropriate pieces to make us swoon. Yes, there’s day options a plenty, but these too feel as if they have bit more glamour than what usually meets the sun. As the line opened, Valli was rifting on outerwear, and introduced his take on the beige coat that looks sure to become a staple piece this autumn. Valli’s cocoons, whether long or cropped, have a structured feel as if to protect the wearer.

Sweet chiffon frocks mingled with long ivory coats and seperates made of bunches of camel-coloured ruffles that exploded from bodice and skirt. Sheer black panels looked a bit risqué sewn onto the bottom of knits or atop fluttery skirts exposing sexy undergarments (guess underwear as outerwear is here to stay). Moving into evening wear, Valli picked up the hem from spring’s drop-waist silhouette, and added embellishments. These punchy mini frocks would look perfect on a sophisticated sixties glamazon with Martini in hand. Valli then pulled pleats of black and nude silk across one another ending at the thigh or snaking down the legs erupting into ripples. Despite troubled economic conditions, Valli has managed to stay afloat with a lovely autumn showing that is sure to delight his ever faithful Valli girls.