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Paris Fashion Week: Valentino goes demurely grey for autumn/winter 2019 with monochromatic show
The design house sent out models in uniformly dark creations, with bursts of creative flair showing in pops of colour and quirky spaceship motifs
Valentino put up a dark display at Paris Fashion Week.
Among the guests in the design house’s front row was American actress Laura Dern, who turned heads with her pleated silk Valentino gown.
The Blue Velvet actress looked very much the part on the front row alongside rapper G. Eazy.
Dern said she was taking an interest in the fashion industry to help her son, 17-year-old Ellery Harper.
“My son is modelling now so I have a particular interest in men’s fashion in a new way. I’m fascinated,” she said. “You will see him very soon in Paris.”
Valentino claimed it was bringing street attitude to the atelier.
But for autumn/winter, Italian designer Pierpaolo Piccioli seemed to have lost some of his creative attitude after a run of superlatively glorious seasons since he took over the sole artistic reins in 2016.
On Wednesday, he played it pretty safe.
Blocks of monochrome – in grey, camel and black – were a key theme of the collection that was held inside an industrial-looking hall of the Grand Palais.
Round, sloping shoulders, boxy torsos and baggy pants defined the silhouette.
But much of the creative work, such as contrasting textures and layering, was rendered invisible because of the monochrome.
The collection was, however, not lacking in nice quirks, such as a spaceship motif and one voluminous grey Sherlock Holmes cape coat and detective-style hat hybrid.
Dern’s son has modelled for Calvin Klein under the watchful eye of designer Raf Simons, and Dern says that Valentino’s designer Pierpaolo Piccioli has also been “generous” in helping his nascent career.
Dern, who came to fame via collaborations with director David Lynch, said she encourages her son to tread carefully in an industry that can be so public, but to relish the opportunities to meet “designers he loves”.
“When I was his age, I met David Lynch who inspired me so much as an actor. I feel like Ellery should take it slowly and find the people that help him find his destiny.”