Fashion’s Ultimate Dreamer: Valentino’s Pierpaolo Piccioli Never Left Home for Good Reason

Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli is a real dreamer and he wants others to be that way, too. Languid and reflective in sharing his views with Alina Cho in an hourlong conversation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Tuesday night, he also was disarmingly direct about how essential the house’s seamstresses and the entire team is to the whole operation. Three years into his solo run as Valentino’s lead creative after his longtime design partner Maria Grazia Chiuri’s move to Dior, Piccioli spoke definitively, yet humbly about his outlook on fashion, diversity and the world. “I always hope to tell different stories each season but to maintain the style. I think the values have to be the same,” he said. “It’s important to change fashion, but it’s important to celebrate fashion. For me, fashion is a territory of dreams. I love when you do even daywear, to do something that is fantastic in a way. I don’t think that you only have something very far away to dream about. I hope that people can dream in everyday life.” On the eve of his resort presentation in New York, Piccioli explained how couture can be a gateway. “It’s like art. You don’t need to

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