PARIS, France — No one has ever been able to work out how Mariano Fortuny, the Spanish designer who ran a couture house from his palazzo in Venice for the first half of the 20th century, made the pleating effects that bear his name. Maybe there’ll come a time when people are as bemused by the techniques that Maria Grazia Chiuri, Pierpaolo Piccioli and their atelier in Rome have mastered with their couture collections for Valentino. You can certainly imagine an audience in the distant…
Fortuny’s Spirit at Valentino
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