Wonderful details from Couture Week The beauty of Haute Couture must be closely appreciated

Dream, extreme luxury, exclusivity: Haute Couture is the tip of the fashion pyramid, the world where creativity can flow free from the limits of mass production. With prices never below four zeros and specialised ateliers dedicating up to hundreds of hours to the creation of a single garment, Couture symbolises unattainable desire.

The very high standard demands millimetric precision and every seam is finished impeccably, to perfection. Haute couture is the occasion when innovative design combines with tailoring savoir-faire to create creations that often have great visual impact. But it is precisely by getting closer that one is able to perceive the great preciousness of couture: detail.

We mere mortals, who do not have access to the Couture Week parigina shows and will probably never wear a Giambattista Valli dress to go shopping, can only imagine. So take some time to take in the beauty of every detail of this autumn/winter 23 collection, dreaming of a world where the boundary between fashion and art becomes increasingly blurred.

Embroidery

Surrealist apples from which golden ears sprout, metallic faces worn as bracelets or mouths hiding in jackets: for Daniel Roseberry of Schiaparelli, the accessory is a small sculpture. Then there are the more conventional floral earrings by Giambattista Valli, which certainly cannot be called 'classic bijoux'.