Haute Couture insights with Valentino and Victoria & Albert Museum

Haute Couture in Valentino’s vision. Valentino’s creative directors speak about memories, Italian craftsmanship and the importance of couture skills involved in their fashion process. Couture is indeed the territory of manual experimentation, of craftsmanship, of “grate hands”. “Couture is part of our memory. It is part of our memory of being Italians because couture is … Read more

From bomb sites to Bulgari: V&A falls under the spell of Italian glamour

A new exhibition charts how postwar Italy transformed the world’s perceptions of it, using its greatest export: style