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Valentino and inventive director Pierpaolo Piccioli are parting methods, the Italian home stated on Friday. A “new inventive group” is to be introduced quickly.

Piccioli joined the home in 1999 as an adjunct designer alongside Maria Grazia Chiuri. The pair have been appointed co-creative administrators in 2008, changing Alessandra Facchinetti, who had taken up the function a 12 months earlier after founder Valentino Garavani retired. In 2016, Piccioli took on the function of sole inventive director, following Chiuri’s departure for Dior.

“Not all tales have a starting or an finish, some reside a type of everlasting current that shines so vibrant that it gained’t produce any shadows,” stated Piccioli in an announcement. “I’ve been on this firm for 25 years, and for 25 years I’ve existed and I’ve lived with the individuals who have woven the weaves of this stunning story that’s mine and ours… Due to Mr Valentino and [Valentino co-founder] Giancarlo Giammetti who’ve blessed me with their belief, thanks to each single one that made this attainable in a method or one other. It was a privilege and an honour to share my journey, and my goals, with you.”

Piccioli grew up within the Italian resort metropolis of Nettuno, studied literature at Rome College, interned at Brunello Cucinelli and after commencement, joined the workforce at Fendi with Chiuri. Talking with Luke Leitch in a 2011 interview about the way in which he and Chiuri approached the duty of directing design at Valentino, Piccioli stated: “We hold the language however change the angle.” That translated initially into collections that toughened Valentino staples, together with ruffles and bows (to not point out pink), and injected new motifs just like the Rockstud. His first assortment in October 2016 after Chiuri left “revealed the unbridled romanticism and fantasy of Piccioli’s singular imaginative and prescient”, Hamish Bowles wrote.