Valentino Narratives II - Maison Valentino and the world of literature - it's all about love

Valentino Narratives II - Maison Valentino and the world of literature - it's all about love - Marz 2022

Art / Fashion & Jewelry 21 March 2022

Valentino Narratives II - Maison Valentino and the world of literature

- it's all about true love - March 2022

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Valentino Narratives - Maison Valentino joins the world of literature for World Poetry Day.

Valentino The Narratives II

Maison Valentino moves in an eclectic circle of artists, designers, illustrators and poets. With its new campaign, the Maison delves into the world of literature for the second time with Valentino the Narratives II, for which Pierpaolo Piccioli invited renowned international authors to lend their voices to create 17 individual campaign layouts.

It's all about love...

LOVE in all its forms and meanings as the common thread of the entire campaign, bringing together writers and poets in a colorful layout: Alok Vaid-Menon, Amia Srinivasan, André Aciman, Andrew Sean Greer, Brit Bennett, David Sedaris, Douglas Coupland, Elizabeth Acevedo, Emily Ratajkowski, Fatima Farheen Mirza, Hanif Kureishi, Leila Slimani, Melissa Broder, Michael Cunningham, Mieko Kawakami, Murathan Mungan and Serang Chung, all experimenting with the freedom of genres.

Valentino The Narratives II will underscore the house's commitment to literature and support select independent bookstores, as well as the Belletrist book club founded in 2017 by Emma Roberts and Karah Preiss.

Likewise, a guerrilla campaign for peaceful words will paper Soho in New York and other cities.

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Fashion would have long lost its importance, because it is about technical innovation, comfort or quick interchangeability.

Pierpaolo Piccioli, on the other hand, gives fashion new meaning by connecting it to other worlds and charging it with new meanings and values. The combination of his Valentino staging with poetry comes at the right time. Maison Valentino recently presented its Valentino Pink PP Collection in Paris when the Ukraine war was only a few days old. Piepaolo Piccioli started the show with his statement of deep concern and stressed that love is the only solution.

The Maison Valentino is all about conveying the values of authenticity and individuality and building community with the voices of art and literature. The latest foray into the realm of literature redefines the way fashion is communicated.

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Valentino literature timeline

2018 - Today
November 2018: Rupi Kaur Live Performance in Valentino TKY Show in Japan

December 2018: Valentino On Love with Yrsa Daley Ward booklet and Rockstud Spike bag

March 2019: Valentino On Love with Mustafa The Poet, Greta Bellamacina, Yrsa Daley Ward & Robert Montgomerry

April 2019: Strand Bookstore x Valentino tote

May 2020: Strand Bookstore Content Partnership & Dressing for all their writers

January 2021: We are Not Really Strangers (3 main editions: Red, Soho, Holidays)

February 2021: Tomi Adeyemi Writer’s Roadmap Sponsorship for 50 students

March 2021: The Alphabet for Kids and Adults by Elsa Majimbo

April 2021: Bernardine Evaristo x Liz Johnson Arthur book by Rizzoli

May 2021: Valentino Narratives I:
- Independent Bookstore Takeovers
- Vogue Italy Into The Words Literary Week Sponsorship

March 2022: Valentino Narratives II

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To the biographies of the authors

Alok Vaid-Menon

Is an American writer, performance artist, and media personality who performs under the name of ALOK. Alok is gender non-conforming and transfeminine and uses singular they pronouns. As a mixed-media artist Alok uses poetry, comedy, performance, drag, lecture, sound-art, fashion design, self-portraiture, and social media to explore themes of gender, race, trauma, belonging, and the human condition. Their artistry responds to violence against trans and gender non- conforming people, calling for freedom from constraining gender norms. Alok’s new book, Beyond the Gender Binary, puts power into the hands of young LGBTQ+ people, with the hopes of making it easier for them to navigate the world.

Amia Srinivasan

Amia Srinivasan is the youngest Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford, where she works on and teaches political philosophy, feminist theory and epistemology. She is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. Her essays and criticism have also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Harper’s, the Nation and TANK.

André Aciman

Is the author of several novels, including Call Me by Your Name (winner, in the Gay Fiction category, of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award and made into a film) and a 1995 memoir, Out of Egypt, which won a Whiting Award.

Andrew Sean Greer

Is an American novelist and short story writer Greer received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Less. He is the author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award.

Brit Bennett

Is an American writer based in Los Angeles. Her debut novel The Mothers (2016) was a New York Times best-seller. Her second novel, The Vanishing Half (2020), was also a New York Times best-seller; further, it reached the #1 spot on The New York Times best-seller list in June. Within a month of publication it was reported that HBO had acquired the rights for “low seven- figures” to develop a limited series with the author as executive producer.

David Sedaris

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre- eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. He has contributed to The New Yorker since 1995. He is the author of “Barrel Fever” (1994) and “Holidays on Ice” (1997), as well as numerous collections of personal essays: “Naked” (1997), “Me Talk Pretty One Day” (2000), ect...

Douglas Coupland

Since 1991 Coupland has written thirteen novels published in most languages. He has written and performed for England’s Royal Shakespeare Company and is a columnist for The Financial Times of London. He is a contributor to The New York Times, e-flux, DIS and Vice.

Elizabeth Acevedo

Is a Dominican-American poet and author. She is the author of the young adult novels The Poet X, With the Fire on High, and Clap When You Land. The Poet X is a New York Times Bestseller, National Book Award Winner,[3] and Carnegie Medal winner.She is also the winner of the 2019 Michael L. Printz Award, the 2018 Pura Belpre Award, and the Boston-Globe Hornbook Award Prize for Best Children’s Fiction of 2018. She lives in Washington, DC.

Emily Ratajkowski

Emily Ratajkowski is a model and actress, an engaged political progressive, and now, a writer. Her first book My Body is the subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture’s commodification of women.

Fatima Farheen Mirza

Fatima Farheen Mirza, 27, was born and raised in California. She studied at the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop, whose alumni include Ann Patchett and Curtis Sittenfeld. Her debut novel, A Place for Us, is the first book published by Sarah Jessica Parker’s new imprint for Hogarth -the Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Paul Harding called it “a work of extraordinary and enthralling beauty”. The novel explores tensions within a devout Muslim family in California around the turn of the 21st century. Fatima was part of the first Narratives edtion.

Hanif Kureishi

is a British playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist of Pakistani and English descent. In 2008, The Times included Kureishi in its list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945. His novel Intimacy was adapted into the film Intimacy by Patrice Chéreau, which won two Bears at the Berlin Film Festival: a Golden Bear for Best Film and a Silver Bear for Best Actress.

Leila Slimani

Leila Slimani received the 2016 Goncourt Prize for her second novel, Chanson douce. On November 6, 2017, she became President Emmanuel Macron’s personal representative for the Francophonie. She was made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters that same year.

Mieko Kawakami

Mieko Kawakami is the author of the internationally best-selling novel, Breasts and Eggs, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of TIME’s Best 10 Books of 2020. She has received numerous prestigious literary awards in Japan, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize.

Melissa Broder

Is an author, essayist and poet. Her work includes novels The Pisces, Milk Fed, the poetry collection Last Sext , and essay collection So Sad Today as well as the popular Twitter feed also titled So Sad Today, on which the book is based. Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle, Vice, Vogue Italia, and New York magazine‘s The Cut.

Michael Cunningham

Michael is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University. The Hours established Cunningham as a major force in the American writing sphere, and his 2010 novel, By Nightfall, was also well received by U.S. critics. He was a producer for the 2007 film Evening, starring Glenn Close, Toni Collette, and Meryl Streep.

Murathan Mungan

His first collection of poems, Osmanlıya Dair Hikayat (Stories about Ottomans) was published in 1980, making Mungan an overnight success.
His output remained prolific and various poetry books followed, notably Yaz Gecer (Summer Passes) and Metal. His short stories were compiled in successful volumes such as Kırk Oda (Forty Rooms) and Paranın Cinleri (Genies of Money).

In 2006, Murathan Mungan supervised the production of a music album by Turkish arabesk singer Müslüm Gürses, featuring cover versions of popular songs such as Alexandra Leaving by Leonard Cohen, Mr. Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan, and I’m Deranged by David Bowie, all of which were selected by Mungan.

Serang Chung

Is a South Korean science fiction and fantasy writer. She won the 7th Changbi Novel Award in 2013, and Hankook Ilbo Literary Award in 2017.Before her debut, she worked as an editor in Minumsa and Munkandongne. At the age of 26, She was the youngest Korean writer to have her books translated into Japanese.Her novel, School Nurse An Eunyoung was made into a Netflix original series.