SUGAR SUGAR Giambattista Valli

“The idea of youth is important,” shares Giambattista Valli on Vogue.com for his fall 2018 couture collection, “because I have a very young customer. They give a new attitude to haute couture — or at least, to my eyes.” This season, Valli delivered his signature frothy tulle confections (some requiring 400 yards of fabric) and full-feather fantasia gowns — but there was something more: markedly relaxed silhouettes (in sheathes and trouser suits) and a sense of “casual” couture. The woman is hot (leggy in a bow-accented bandeau and black duchesse satin pant pairing), the woman is cool (in feathered minis, no less). This is Giambattista’s take on dressing the woman of now.