Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

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A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​

Editors' Notes

A look from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Neil Rasmus

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Sofia Coppola

Photo Credit: Neil Rasmus

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Giancarlo Giammetti & Valentino Garavani

Photo Credit: Neil Rasmus

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Katie Holmes

Photo Credit: Neil Rasmus

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Emma Roberts

Photo Credit: Neil Rasmus

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Pierpaolo Piccioli & Maria Grazia Chiuri

Photo Credit: Neil Rasmus

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James Marsden

Photo Credit: Greg Kessler

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Mood board for Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Greg Kessler

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Mood board for Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Greg Kessler

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Mood board for Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Greg Kessler

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Looks from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Greg Kessler

Editors' Notes

Looks from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Greg Kessler

Editors' Notes

Looks from Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Greg Kessler

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Backstage at Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Greg Kessler

Editors' Notes

Backstage at Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Photo Credit: Greg Kessler

Editors' Notes

Backstage at Valentino's Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house's New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.

Members of the fashion flock including Sofia Coppola were on hand in New York for Valentino‘s presentation of a 47-piece haute couture collection created to celebrate the opening of the Italian fashion house’s Fifth Avenue flagship on Wednesday, December 10. The monochromatic looks designed by Maria Grazia Churi and Pierpaolo Piccioli were shown inside the former Whitney Museum of American Art, and Valentino Garavani himself as well as the house’s former chief executive Giancarlo Giammetti were on hand to see the immaculate white dresses, gowns, coats, suits, and capes float down the runway. In anticipation of the collection, the designers created mood boards filled with images of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (herself a longtime New York resident) who was dressed by Valentino for her 1968 wedding to Aristotle Onassis. The looks had a bit of a 1960s Courrèges, Space Age feel, but each piece—whether it be a sheer dress or small-shouldered cape—looked entirely clean and modern. The collection was an impeccably suitable segue to 2015.

By Elizabeth Varnell

Pictured: A look from Valentino’s Sala Bianca 2014 haute couture collection created for the launch the Italian fashion house’s New York flagship on Fifth Avenue.
Photo by: Dan Lecca for Valentino​​​​