In this collaborative story, six emerging visual artists from Paris wear catwalk looks from Valentino’s AW21 collection
Nataal has teamed up with FARFETCH and Valentino to celebrate a new generation of visual artists in Paris. This community of agenda-setting talents - whose work addresses themes as diverse as identity, gender, the environment and spirituality – are invigorating the city’s creative scene. Here they wear catwalk looks from Valentino’s AW21 collection set against a brutalist landscape. Brought together, these new wave talents and their art pieces speak to the brand’s radical direction for the season. Abbreviated lengths, clean and cocooned shapes and fine details such as a cut-out diamond motif across knitwear express a poetic punk attitude. As Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli pushes the house’s romantic codes into new territory that feels at once minimal and sensual, these artists likewise take us into the frontier.
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JOSUÉ COMOE
ALIZÉE QUITMAN
Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux
Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux
Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux
Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux
Maty Biayenda
ALIZÉE QUITMAN
MATY BIAYENDA
ALEXIA FIASCO
FABIEN CONTI
This is part one of our Valentino AW21 story. Look out for part two profiling each artist on 20 October 2021.
Creative
Photography Kyle Weeks
Styling Laëtitia Gimenez Adam, at Streeters
Creative direction Marie Gomis-Trezise
Film direction Remember You Were Made to be Used
Hair Yann Turchi
Make-up Aurore Gibrien
Nails Beatrice Eni
Set design Leonne Faulks
Words Helen Jennings
Photography assistance Aurele Ferrero, Chloe May Truong, Anthony Karayan
Digital operation Oliver Looren
Film assistance Florenti Marti, Sekou Camara
Film sound FX093
Styling assistance Lise Breton
Make-up assistance Claire Laugeois, Fay Bio-Toura
Hair assistance Melissa Nerovique
Set design assistance Louis Niermans
Production Farago
Art direction Precious Opara, and Delali Ayivi
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Published on October 2, 2021
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