Trending at Valentino SS21: super shirts, jumbo rock studs and a Levi’s collab

Valentino SS21

While the fashion industry grapples with What The Future of Fashion Will Look Like, Valentino has a very straightforward suggestion. What if it’s as simple as the egalitarian shirt?

In lieu of the usual full throttle romanticism, Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Valentino SS21 show was a lesson in relative wearability. Alongside pared back mini shift dresses, he reinvented the humble shirt, ranging from couture-craftsmanship to casual cabana.

Like everyone else, I zeroed in on the pink taffeta throw-on number (below), but also a relaxed applique shirt-jacket (above), the bibbed guipure lace, the silk rose-covered cabana shirt and the intricate crochet creation dressed down with shorts and trainers.

Shirts are easy. We understand them, they’re not size-ist and they translate across different occasions. And of course, the elevated variety are as Zoom-friendly as they come.

To complete this very commercial offering: Rock Stud slouchy tote bags and a Levi’s collab. Valentino is bringing back the 1960s 517 boot cut jean in a clean-cut true blue denim. You can’t get more egalitarian than that.
Valentino SS21 pink shirt
Valentino SS21 lace dress shirt
Valentino ss21
Valentino SS21

Valentino SS21 silk cabana shirt
Valentino SS21 shirting
Valentino Levi's 617 jeans

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WORDS: Disneyrollergirl/Navaz Batliwalla
IMAGES: Valentino SS21
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