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While Paris served as a setting for the Haute Couture shows as usual, Maria Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, current designers for Valentino, decided to present their latest collection in Rome where Valentino Garavani initially founded his couture house more than half a century ago. Therefor, the designers' main inspiration was Rome itself: black velvet dresses, floor-lenght capes, gladiator sandals and roman headbands were all over the place. "Rome is just a little bit noir, a little sinister," said Piccioli to explain the important presence of black gowns. Red, green and gold were the three other key colors and the symbols that appeared all over the collection reinforced the ancient vibe - an eagle, symbol of imperial Rome, wheat stalks and griffin embroidery. Chiuri and Piccioli represented the highest class of Rome's imperial era and even the gold gladiator dress portrayed a fighter in the most elegant way. Along with the headbands, gold pendant necklaces were rest...

This wednesday Viktor and Rolf  presented their latest Haute Couture collection in Paris they named "Wearable Art". If you don't know it yet, the two designers revealed they would follow the steps of Jean Paul Gaultier by only focusing on Haute Couture. This show truly showed how fashion is a full art - wearable art to use their own words. While a lot of people question the true meaning of Couture, defining it as a bunch of expensive clothes you will never wear, Viktor and Rolf got things straight: fashion should not be considered only as a way to look good and following trends is boring - even though it is kind of important since it portrays a certain generation. Fashion should be considered as art on the same level as painting, architecture, poetry, music... If you are going to spend tons of money on a painting, why not on an outfit ? Both are different kinds of art. Anyway, it is interesting to see how the show evolved. The first looks consisted on denim sm...