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Giamba's Niche

Giambattista Valli mined 1980s Downtown New York showing a proliferation of tutus and leather caps.
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  • Angelo Flaccavento

MILAN, Italy — Giamba, the irreverent, younger sibling of the Giambattista Valli girl, has found her own niche in the world. She inhabits a glorious bubble of frills and boots, graffiti brocades and haphazard mixes of high and low, couture and underground. As a line, it is essentially an exercise in raw assemblage applied to a dignified design lexicon. This season, Giambattista Valli mined Downtown New York in the early 1980s and the proliferation of tutus and leather caps were a nod to the source of his inspiration. The delicate perversion of seasons past was replaced by something tougher and more heavily styled, but beyond the layers — both physical and metaphorical — were Valli's trademark dresses.

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