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“I FEEL THE energy of this city. I love its rhythm. It’s so free,” said Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli last Tuesday night. He was surveying the crowd at the Top of the Standard at New York’s Standard Hotel, where the brand was toasting its 2018 resort show, staged earlier that day.
That collection, reflecting a new athletic sensibility—a departure from the label’s romanticism—captured a similar energy. Still, the many Valentino fans in attendance had selected dreamier dresses from seasons past: Harley…