After the first one nine months ago, we are ready to welcome the second chapter of the re-signification of the Valentino maison by creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli. 

The project, curated by Mariuccia Casadio and Jacopo Bedussi and realized in the spaces of T-10 of SKP South in Beijing, was opened to the public on October 17 and will remain so until November 7, 2021.  
Couture, Atelier, Stud and VLogo Signature are at the center of the narrative of this second chapter.
On the exhibition floor, we also find the contemporary and inclusive interpretation of make-up imagined by Piccioli with Valentino Beauty.

The artists’ works and Piccioli’s creative process create tension, while the paths and multiple languages used are incoherent because they are poetically personal. 
We investigate light, darkness and shadows and the way they interact with materials and surfaces, as well as the phenomena of reflection and refraction. But also on the human and statuesque body from the classical representation to the digital and algorithmic one. Every body present here is the result of the mediation between idea and craftsmanship, technique or technology.

The theme of the city that holds together order and chaos, traditions and revolutions, in which communities constantly redefine themselves by feeding on their own suggestions, producing new codes by deconstructing and re-assembling what already exists.

The clothes on show, which come directly from the Maison’s archives and from recent and contemporary Haute Couture, produce relationships and balances with the works on display. But this relationship is neither univocal nor analytical, but perceptible and easily intuitable.

The structure of the exhibition is rationally open and does not provide for the classic unidirectional fruition, but pushes the viewer to get lost and explore by simply being guided by the force of attraction.