Valentino will offer its Instagram platform to the designers for a livestream of the spring show, to be held in Milan on Thursday.
. The initiative the Roman brand launched with Italy’s fashion chamber originally kicked off in February, when the first contact between Maison Valentino and Act N.1 was made, too.
A preview of a look from the Act N.1 Spring 2023 collection, which will be unveiled Sept. 22, 2022, in Milan. At the time of the announcement, Piccioli described the duo’s work as “light and profound as the gaze of every young designer should be and perhaps as the one of all of us should be.” For spring 2023, the duo will explore the different characters within each person “because everyone wears sort of masks depending on different occasions,” said Lin, adding that the historic tradition of Chinese opera will be referenced in this investigation and, more pragmatically, it will be nodded to in key prints and cuts that will appear on clothes.
Indeed, the brand is best known for its dramatic, maximalist tulle pieces and their cross-pollination with tailoring and Gassanoff assured this collection will have its fair share of those as the designers are applying the finishing touches to “structural pieces and looks in different volumes,” set to show off their skills.This season, the duo will introduce its first women’s footwear collection, after a few co-branding experiments.