Fearlessly taking on the heritage of womanly elegance established by fashion’s original Roman
emperor and injecting it with their own subversive modern femininity, designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli have reimagined the venerable house of Valentino for the now  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/10/11

Gaultier does a retrained take on the cancan.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/27/11

Pitti is always packed with a rumba line of events from runway shows and special presentations to art-meets-fashion happenings. The first big one of the four-day Pitti was last night's Valentino men's show, the premiere for the storied Roman house, now under the creative direction of Valentino Garavani's former right hands Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/12/11

Chanel's aThe biggest arena for fashion is Paris's glass-domed Grand Palais and it has inspired Karl Lagerfeld to dream up grandiose stage sets for Chanel, which each season surpasses the last.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/06/10

Everyone needs a little coffee with their cream and sugar, and indeed Valentino's designs have always been luxuriously rich and sweet. But change is in the wind.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/13/09