(ANSA) - ROME, JANUARY 26 - The one that was seen parading today from Valentino could be a modern day Ziggy Stardust, with its disruptive load of ambiguous elegance, incarnation of a contemporary gender fluid generation, perfect clientele for a unisex style, made of tailored garments, easy to exchange between her and him, without season, time and genre.
There is all the charm of the character created by David Bowie in the Seventies, with the complicity of the Japanese designer Kamsai Yamamoto who designed the clothes, in the transgender figure protagonist of the new Valentino haute coutur collection, signed by its creative director PierpaoloPiccioli, which is on the catwalk due to pandemic , among marbles and paintings from the Baroque era, Sala Grande in the Gallery of Palazzo Colonna in Rome.
A fashion show shown in a video presented online, but which is part of the Parisian high fashion week.
The music is by Robert Del Naja, a British artist famous as a writer, whom many refer to as the mysterious graffiti artist Bansky, and by his musical group Massive Attack.
Hardly distinguishable models and models parade on the catwalk.
Maria Carla Boscono opens with a white cashmere cape made from 500 pieces of precious wool.
Another cape in double fuchsia cashmere follows.
Boys with long pistachio-colored gloves worn on beige sweaters embroidered with gold sequins, or with red trompe l'oeil velvet coats as luxurious as fur.
That futurist character for the time, conceived by David Bowie, seems to be embodied in the outfit of the all-over embroidered trouser suit with gold sequins, worn with the perfect cut doubled cashmere coat.
To support the concept of transgenderci are the cuissards and the gold-colored shoes with plateau 20 cm high: "the inspiration comes from Venetian slippers and from Leigh Bowery (Australian drag queen and designer ed). But I also had to lengthen the figure. my silhouette is vertical - Piccioli explains - the perfection of high fashion is boring for me, I wanted some disturbing notes ".
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