• From the Spring 2022 collection that was produced for the shops that season.
• Made under the creative direction of Pierpaolo Piccioli
• This is an extraordinarily rare piece and only a few were made.
• Besides being the twin of a runway piece, one was also worn by Francesca Vecchioni to the Venice Film Festival that year. I love this lets you see how extraordinary this piece is on the body.
• It is one of the most elaborate and dramatic pieces I have had in the shop and it feels like it borderlines onto Couture. 
• In Vogue's review they said that is was "a proposition of a beautiful, casualized couture wardrobe designed to float between genders: lightweight taffeta tailoring in vivid colours, plethoras of dresses from minuscule and cutaway to sweeping, embroidered caftans. The mini-maxi proportion play—like billowy volumes teamed with micro-shorts—provided a translated house glamour..."
• It is a piece that is meant to be worn oversized. Its extreme proportions are part of what gives it it's glamour.
• It is meant to be worn on its own as a standalone piece but you could also wear it layered over other things as a more evening coat/caftan feeling piece. Love that extra versatility.
• It is made out of a silk that has some structure to it so the shape is held. The front is primarily the deep burgundy and then starting at the shoulders and the top of the sleeves it changes to the white that you see running over the entire back.
• The collar is pointed and neat. It buttons down the front with matching silk covered buttons.
• It sits very generously over the body and widens out substantially as it near the hem. High slits run up each side and the buttons at the front end at approximately the same point as the height of the slits at the sides.
• The sleeves are extraordinary. He has basically left the entire inner seam open and made the sleeves very wide and full. The cuffs have been widened out dramatically. This combines to  make the sleeves act like capes over your arms.
• It is interesting to note that there are actually a series of buttons on that underside where the sleeves are open. You can in theory close them and wear them as a proper closed sleeve. The look is meant for them to be open as it was shown on the runway and the red carpet but you do have that option.
• What makes the piece close to Couture is the extraordinary embroidery that runs over the entire thing.
• A beautiful design of flowers with 3D embroidered petals run over the entire piece highlighting its lines. I have taken photos and close-ups for you and its even better in person. I love the subtle bit of metallic thread that this adds to the piece and there are also tiny red and green sequins worked into the pattern. It is utterly amazing.
• A single pocket is set on top at the front for a nod to its shirt dress origins and it has pockets along each hip.
• It is fully lined in a white silk at the back and a burgundy silk for the front. It buttons down the front to close and the sleeves button as described above. It is wonderfully made and is just a truly extraordinary thing
• Tagged a modern 38 and meant to be oversized so should fit a large range of sizes.
• Excellent condition and appears to have never been worn

Sleeves: 24" from the dropped shoulder. They would be 19"around if you chose to button the sleeves on the underside.
Dropped shoulders: 19"
Bust: to 25" flat across from side seam to side seam and widens out more to the hem
Total length: 55" from waist to front hem, 59" to the back hem

Modern Sizing Equivalent: OSFA

Item# DD5135

Reference Photos/Video: (1-4) Spring 2022 Valentino, Look 78. Model Natacha Bufy.  /  (5-6) Francesca Vecchioni in Valentino at the Venice Film Festival, October 2022.

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