Alessandra Facchinetti for Valentino Interview

Suzy Menkes interviews Alessandra Facchinetti for Valentino.

BRING BACK ALESSANDRA! THIS IS A TRAVESTY!!! VALENTINO THE BRAND WILL FADE AWAY INTO AN OBLIVION BECAUSE THE NEW "DESIGNERS" ARE TALENTLESS HACKS!!!!

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• Alessandra Facchinetti
• Suzy Menkes
• interview
• fashion
• Valentino

[andiep]

Okay, this just made me so sad!

[allooui]

I know!!! I'm still just as sick about it as the first day I heard the news!

[gemifredricko]

At least she made history of the FIRST WOMAN COUTURIER ever in the HAUTE COUTURE MEMBER HOUSES

[countrad]

a remarkably beautiful and talented woman

[misterkiller89]

@michelepierro I agree. Alessandra's touch seemed more genuine to the Valentino identity....the "dark romance" thing the new duo does is nice but so.......predictable.

[misterkiller89]

@gemifredricko Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, (Donatella) Versace, Hanae Mori, Nina Ricci, and a number of other female designers have already been established in the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Alessandra (at the time) was one of the few female designers doing couture, but she was definitely not the first woman to do couture.

[lctrentham]

Questa a Valentino era come i cavoli a merenda....

[LearnLanguages1]

I loved this woman.

[pict7]

The fall collection under the new "talent" is just shy of horrid. Alessandra Facchinetti has had her revenge! >=)

[Teddybearboy]

I think the market for Valentino will ultimately prevail though. His clients demand no nonsense amped-up glamour and while I do think Facchinetti's vision of Valentino is delightfully innovative in dissolving his usually graphic and structured necklines into flowing delicate prints and refined embroideries, it is far too demure a collection for them. The upcoming a/w under the new team treaded very carefully in reinstating that sharpness and brassiness, if a little heavy-handedly.

[LearnLanguages1]

The thing that really annoyed me was that the new designers are not romantic designers, and said they were 'concrete.' I thought Facchinetti was accused of not sticking to the archives enough, but I think she did so more than the new two. She's so nice as well!