Maison Valentino reveals the new UNBOXING Valentino advertising campaign shot by Steven Meiselat the Highline Stages Studioin New York in November2022.
Unboxing as an idea, the idea of community throughindividuality. An actionleading to the essential, the intentional removal of what exceeds. It is subtraction, not absence.
Fashion has always to be related to the body. The body of all human beings. Pierpaolo Piccioli opens to all individuals by embracing their diverse personalities, desires, and imperfections as fashion needsto be moldedby humanity and invaded by reality.
The language of couture in the ready to wear alphabet. Tailoringcontaminated by couture codes. A solved complexity in shape and volumes. Genderless items revised through an inclusive process creating a wardrobe that embraces identities and shapes; that enhance the personality and liberate the form, allowing a freedom of choice in the celebration of individuality.
The Unboxing Valentino collection campaign is the portrait of a moment. The portrait of a new generation. A portrait of fashion, freedom of expression and the power of beauty. Pierpaolo Piccioli chosea cast of characters with a strongidentity, to conveyhis idea of beauty. He looks for humans, real people make things easier.They put the extraordinary in a familiarframe.
A collective exploration of diverse personalities to dwell the Maison community, like a Warhol factory, through Steven Meisel’s lens. Meisel is one of fashion industry’s most iconic photographers, best known for his work for Vogue US and Vogue Italia. The Valentino campaign is inspired by the renowned editorial ‘The Group’ shot by Meisel himself for Vogue Italia in 1999. Photography is the most powerful tool that fashion has to express itself as it evocates a collective unconscious that is able to detect.
Steven Meisel also directs the video of the campaign, creating a connection between fixed and in loop images that repeat themselves until the group,which includes PierpaoloPiccioli, reunites all together. In the aura, the notes of the soundtrack by the CocteauTwins.
It is the urgency to narrate a choral and powerful story through each individual of the campaign: an unboxing of roles, desires, imperfections and identity. Each image reveals portraits of singles and group characters that narrate a generation free to dare.
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