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Forever Valentino

Start Date 28 October 2022
End Date 01 April 2022
Venue M7
Location Doha, Qatar
Curator Pierpaolo Piccioli, Massimiliano Gioni and Alexander Fury
Gallery view showing a projection of a skylight. Underneath is a large, grey replica of a marble face. Surrounding it is a group of red Valentino dresses, worn on red mannequins.
“ROME: THIS IS WHERE WE ALL BELONG, AND THIS IS WHERE EVERYTHING STARTS”
PIERPAOLO PICCIOLI

Coinciding with Valentino Garavani’s 90th birthday and the unveiling of the Valentino Autumn/Winter 2022 Haute Couture collection in the heart of Rome, the exhibition is conceived as a vast panoramic view of the history of the Maison, embedded in scenography evoking the Eternal City, which has been Valentino’s home since its foundation in 1959.

The show is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, artistic director of the New Museum New York, and the fashion critic and author Alexander Fury, working closely with Valentino Creative Director Pierpaolo Piccioli.

Red is Valentino – a colour first used in Valentino Garavani’s debut collection in 1959 and present ever since, it is synonymous with the House. The wider cultural meanings of red align with our perceptions of Valentino – it is a colour of optimism and auspiciousness, of authority and abundance, of passion and love.

Within the Palazzo Room, in the Forever Valentino Exhibition, 34 exemplifying dresses are on display conveying how Rosso Valentino is, truly, a ‘fil rouge’ to Valentino Garavani’s personal vision of beauty, his noble ideals.