Mario Valentino Company

"We started from shoes and it is round the that we must continue”. An innovative spirit animated the fashion house between the end of 1980s and the beginning of 1990s and this was art the basis of the projects developed in footwear and accessories. Significant for the progressive revision in this field was the consultancy work of Karl Lagerfeld. The company’s production capacity, the opennes to modernity that has always characterized its founder,the high technical specialization of its craftsmen and the importance of tradition lead him to design modish models. Then years later, the design became more delicate and the style more sober and moderate thanks to the ideas of Bianca Valentino.The footwear colkection designed with Claude Montana revealed this influence. The combinazione of natural materiale with synthetic supports, drives creative talents to new design horizons which express a unique blend of modernity, humor and tradition. The Leather, the core soul of this kind of products is reduced to a pure decorative element. A culture of essentialty,minimalism and the idea of “false poverty” influenced this period. For Mario Valentino including this trend means to conform to the most advanced trends of fashion world and to move consciously between the contradictory trends of those times,between overwhelming and seductive artifices on one side, and the anti-luxury expedients,on the other, which find an expression in this case in the tattered mesh shoes, much lighter than a sandal, they have laces and profiles in suede and very low leather sole. From “Mario Valentino Archive”. #MarioValentino #MV #MVArchive