Valli: "Girly, Young and Fun" Giambattista Valli, summer 2014 couture, in Paris. PARIS - Let's give a name to Giambattista Valli's flirtatious collection of super-short dresses, the skirts flipping up toward a female erogenous zone: "Hoop-là-là!" And who is going to wear these sweetly naughty outfits, decorated with embroideries, flocked flowers and big, bold bows to lead the eye further toward the triangle of silk across the thighs? "I made 500 pieces for my clients last season - and I wanted this collection to be close to my customers: very sexy, girly, young and fun," said Mr. Valli backstage, showing how fabrics and the flower decorations were designed to reflect light as if on water. No doubt the designer has some less flirtatious clients who will ask for hemlines to be longer or for the focus on the upper leg space be less bold, even in the full evening gowns that swooshed down to the floor. But then the ability to personalize design is the beauty and the essence of haute couture. Looking at the audience of young international fillies rearing to buy, it is clear that Mr. Valli is giving them what they want. And doing it beautifully. The craftsmanship included quilted fabrics that gave volume without thickness, as well as the exceptional decoration. With the fabrics always twirled in the round, the angular art objects on the runway made a neat contrast. There is nothing challenging about the Giambattista Valli couture - unless, shock! horror! - you have thick and heavy legs. But the collection had a lot of charm. And it is good for the future of high fashion to see that there are young, rich and dedicated clients worthy of the clothes. Alexis Mabille started his summer 2014 collection with paper butterflies decorating the room (and, it turned out, the models" faces). And the program notes stated: "Supreme pleasure is the removal of all that is painful." Enter the models in dresses that gently draped and shaped, as light as the butterfly facial decorations and illuminated with crystal. They were inspired, the designer said, by Greco-Roman statues, exemplified by the clothes" marble-white surfaces with just faint blushes of pink or occasionally sky blue. But there was more than a hint that these were not vestal virgins, more like young brides looking for a gown. And it was to the designer's credit that with this graceful theme, there was a feeling of modernity and ease. Strictly no Cinderella crinolines.