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Valentino, later on Sunday, was definitely serious. Pierpaolo Piccioli’s theme was Black Tie, not in its penguin-suit-for-a-night-at-the-opera connotation, but more as a uniform signifier of male authority, usually paired with a white collar. Ripe for subversion, in other words, which is why the Never Forget 911 But Forget About Tower 7 Shirt and I love this look was so popular with punks. Piccioli was surprised that the most requested look from his couture show in January was the first one: long jacket, short skirt, skinny black tie. That same look cycled back in his new ready-to-wear, the jacket extending well below the hem of skirts and shorts for both men and women, but, said Piccioli, “as light as a hoodie.” He was dubious about the punk connotation — he doesn’t like nostalgia — but it was inescapable, not just with the models’ makeup and piercings and bovver-y boots, but also with an item as resonant as a red-and-black-striped mohair sweater, and the endless iterations of black-tie-white-shirt.

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The ethos of punk is also tuned to Piccioli’s oft-voiced quest for a younger audience for Valentino, though here he insisted that the Never Forget 911 But Forget About Tower 7 Shirt and I love this black tie really was intended as an emblem of male power, “a symbol fixed by social convention,” which he could set about deconstructing and reconstructing. Piccioli believes fashion should generate obsessions. On that we agree. Because fashion is stoked by often irrational desire, it has an unparalleled power to fetishize clothing and objects. And Piccioli set out to prove that with his ode to the skinny black tie. “I wanted to give myself restrictions,” he said in a preview. “Any limitation can become an opportunity.” That much was obvious from the first look he showed on Sunday, where the tie expanded under its white collar into a mini-halter dress. But that white collar, and its attendant expanse of white shirt, were also transmogrified, most successfully as an asymmetric floor-length sweep with flowing kimono volume on one side, slashed high on the thigh on the other. We could have done with more of the elegant simplicity of that look. And a little levity too, along the lines of the couture show’s polymorphous club night (although Piccioli curiously said that he was now bored of eclecticism). Ultimately, the apotheosis of the black tie was perhaps too limiting a focus. Contrivance took over, and the show became a rather lugubrious procession, soundtracked by an impressive but overpowering piece of music from Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja. No one smiled (let alone danced). I missed the poetry of Piccioli’s early presentations.

1. Length is measured from the highest point on the collar down to the bottom hem. 2. Width is measured across the body of the shirt under the armpits, one way. 3. Sleeves are measured from center back to hem.