Valentino Vintage: Valentino donates designer clothes to seven schools

Valentino Vintage has donated items from the brand to seven schools, marking the final phase of the project, which was launched in 2021. The project, now in its second edition, is aimed at breathing new life into creations from the fashion house.

Thanks to a collaboration with 1 Granary, an internationally recognized platform for education, incubation, and creative networking in the realm of fashion, based in London, the fashion house has gifted five Valentino Vintage looks to each of seven art and fashion schools.

The initiative offers promising talents of tomorrow an opportunity to explore and redefine historic designs from the Valentino archive.

The beneficiary institutions, which include IED in Milan, the French Fashion Institute (IFM) in Paris, Central Saint Martins in London, Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, Coconogacco in Tokyo, Esmod in Seoul, and Parsons School of Fashion in New York, have each initiated dedicated projects with the donated Valentino Vintage looks.

These have included in-depth studies of the garments, drawing sessions inspired by the donated clothes, augmented reality filters, reinterpretation workshops, photoshoots, and styling projects.

Students at the seven institutions have had the privilege of experiencing the pieces from the Valentino archive first-hand, offering them a close-up view of the styles that define Valentino's heritage and DNA, as per the press release sent out by the brand.