FKA Twigs performed at the show, which saw Pierpaolo Piccioli exploring how to bring romanticism into the masculine everyday.

Valentino has always been known for its classic elegance, blending its <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/beauty/adut-akech-beauty-lifestyle-model-interview-2019">Roman grandeur</a> with a craft that fits right into Paris. Pierpaolo Piccioli has taken these qualities into the 21st century using streetwear motifs, <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/valentino-china-couture-show-2019">inclusive casting</a>, and <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop%20culture/funniest-memes-baby-yoda-lizzo-2019">that tiny bag</a> that Lizzo carried to the AMAs. So it was no surprise when the Valentino Men&#39;s Fall 2020 collection, which showed today in Paris, showed a range of tailored pieces that felt ready to&nbsp;effortlessly transition from a sophisticated get-together to the street, mixing sharp and soft silhouettes while using floral graphics and capes to craft a modern vision of menswear fit for 2020.

&quot;With this collection I tried to change the perception of the traditional definition&nbsp;of tailoring, offering a new idea,&quot; said Piccioli of the new collection.&nbsp;&quot;[We did this] By dismissing the idea of formalwear as a uniform but making it more sensitive and romantic.&quot;&nbsp;

What was&nbsp;an exciting surprise was FKA Twigs&#39; performance at the show. Wrapped in an immaculate cloud of crystals while performing songs from her <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/best-upcoming-music-releases-fall-2019">new album</a> Magdalene, the musician and style icon added an extra degree of magic to the sensual designs. The venue,&nbsp;Galerie Courbe of the Grand Palais, took inspiration from&nbsp;concert halls&nbsp;with its protruding stage, keeping with the elegant mood and allowing for the entire audience to have a great view of Twigs as models paraded in front of her.

Every detail of&nbsp;the show aimed to add to Picciol&#39;s theme of the unexpected. &quot;How [do you wear] a suit [to] a concert?&quot; the designer inquired.&nbsp;&quot;You have to change your perspective and take away some formalities from the formal.&quot;&nbsp; Behind the scenes, mood boards held&nbsp;the portraits of Amoako Boafo exploring how&nbsp;to convey the&nbsp;new idea of masculinity,&nbsp;which in his vision, should aim&nbsp;free and not lend itself to stereotypes.

&quot;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion-week/gucci-fall-2020-mens-runway-show">Self-expression</a> is the dominant approach of fashion today,&quot; Piccioli said of how his concept fits in conversation with general trends.&nbsp;&quot;Right now, there is this great debate about the end of streetwear and the return to a certain idea of formality. I believe that streetwear is simply not finished. I think the formal has evolved by eliminating the&nbsp;bossiness that has always characterized it. Men have changed, and we&nbsp;are freer to reveal [our] emotions. It is all a game of perspectives at a time when these two worlds do not fight, but coexist.&quot;&nbsp;Bringing Valentino&#39;s romanticism to more traditional tailoring and menswear pieces, Piccioli creates fluid magic, finding the perfect balance between power and emotion to display that neither is inherently masculine or feminine; instead, all of humanity harbors some of both.

&quot;It is streetwear [at a new height],&quot; Piccioli proclaimed.&nbsp;&quot;It is normal to customize and make a suit unique.&nbsp;The new approach is to apply the same thought to sportswear&nbsp;and urban style.&quot; This highbrow reinterpretation of streetwear was visible in the&nbsp;urban outerwear, born from assemblies of different fabrics for a product far more effective than the sum of its parts. Jackets combining a refined boucl&eacute; with eco-leather&nbsp;seemed set to live in&nbsp;between the street and the atelier.

Key collaborations in the show were logo sneakers designed alongside&nbsp;Japanese brand&nbsp;Onitsuka Tiger, as well as pieces decorated with the evocative works of Melanie Matranga. Unconventional writing featured on T-shirts, elevated from text to&nbsp;decoration whether it was woven with straw jacquard on a trench coat&nbsp;or embroidered in black on immaculate cotton. &quot;This <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/categories/art">artist</a> uses words as messages of love,&quot; Piccioli said of Matranga&#39;s contributions.&nbsp;&quot;They are proclamations.&nbsp;Posters of modernity that enter the formal vocabulary from a&nbsp;T-shirt.&quot;

The end of the show introduced a&nbsp;play&nbsp;on eveningwear, and three-dimensional embroidery from the atelier displayed a&nbsp;crossover into couture&mdash;something definitely on Piccioli&#39;s mind&nbsp;as he&#39;s been simultaneously preparing for Valentino&#39;s next haute couture show, which happens a week from today.&nbsp;Keeping his focus on the unexpected throughout the show, the&nbsp;designer offered his contribution to&nbsp;the&nbsp;new era of menswear he sees so clearly. See all the looks from the Valentino Fall 2020 Men&#39;s collection below.

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