Valentino
Donna Born In Roma
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Born in Lombardy, in northern Italy, he has always sought to pay tribute to his native country in each of his creations. Thus, his perfumery line is no exception to this tradition. The Valentino Donna range, born in 2015, is an incarnation of the Dolce Vita. Once again, Valentino has chosen to take us into the most famous Mediterranean boot. His new fragrance is called Valentino Donna Born In Roma, a tribute to the house's creation.
The resolutely Italian spirit of Valentino Donna Born In Roma
Valentino Donna Born In Roma is a fragrance that does not hide its origins, as its name attests. Indeed, it is a fragrance that is Born In Roma, meaning born in Rome, like all of Valentino's creations. The house's headquarters and workshops have always been located in the Palazzo Mignanelli, a particularly luxurious place located in the heart of one of the most beautiful Italian cities, in the historic center of Rome. Dear to Valentino, the Palazzo Mignanelli has been awakening its founder's creativity for several decades now. It is therefore only natural that Valentino Donna Born In Roma pays tribute to it. The Italian influences of this fragrance are omnipresent. Vivid and light, it is like a summer stroll under a sun-kissed freshness. Its bottle, meanwhile, is covered with a multitude of small prisms that evoke the appearance of the stones of Italian palaces.
Valentino Donna Born In Roma, a trend-driven and couture fragrance
Valentino Donna Born In Roma preserves the aesthetic of its predecessors, notably thanks to its countless small pyramids present across its entire surface. Moreover, these have even extended to its cap, which has itself swapped its former golden color for a matte black. This small change only gives it a more rock 'n' roll edge. The rest is radically different, with a more romantic and very feminine pink. The woman who wears Valentino Donna Born In Roma is all of these at once: refined yet surprising, bold yet chic, shy yet determined.
In terms of scent, Valentino Donna Born In Roma is a floral oriental built around three different jasmine accords. The central element of its formula is here enhanced by Bourbon vanilla, one of the most expensive raw materials in all of perfumery. Undeniably, Valentino Donna Born In Roma is a luxurious fragrance, intended for an exceptional woman. Its couture spirit is omnipresent. Pink pepper and bergamot preserve its freshness and vivacity. The whole is also structured by a woodier breath. Valentino Donna Born In Roma is the ideal fragrance to pay tribute to one's origins, values and personality. It is the fifth version of the Valentino Donna collection, following Valentino Donna Eau de Parfum, Valentino Donna Acqua, Valentino Donna Noir Absolu and Valentino Donna Rosa Verde.
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The advertising
Born in Roma Donna in an advertisement that tells us Italy in a different way...
The house of Valentino, born in the heart of 1960s Italian cinema, has always embodied elegance, glamour and modernity. In its fragrances, the same holds true, both for men with Valentino Uomo and for women with Valentina or Valentino Donna. In 2019, this singularity between modernity and the sumptuous elegance of the past would find its most obvious echo in the two Born in Roma fragrances, all the more so through its superb advertisement, which plays with clichés to surprise us a little more...
Born in Roma Donna, a Valentino woman in Italian palaces...
We enter this advertisement through a sublime princess of modern times, the Born in Roma woman. Dressed in a sublime pink evening gown, she seems to have escaped from a fairy tale to find herself in the deserted streets of Rome. While we initially thought this pretty young woman was alone, she moves forward smiling toward her Prince Charming, a rebellious biker who awaits her on his big motorcycle. And off they go together on an adventure on two wheels!
Together, they cross the splendid Roman countryside until they reach a most imposing palace. The Born in Roma man then opens the doors of this architectural beauty and reveals to his pretty princess the splendor of the Roman night. The Born in Roma young woman then takes to the dance floor, performing a sensual dance that does not fail to seduce her leather-clad prince.
While the young couple seem to slip away from the party in full swing, we find them again accompanied by their whole group at dawn as the sun rises over the countryside.
Stepping into the light in order to... better step out of it with Born in Roma Donna
For this Born in Roma campaign, the house of Valentino called on director Harmony Korine, who filmed our two heroes through a life as exhilarating as it is astonishing. It is true that this film seems to begin like a modern fairy tale, a sublime Cinderella awaiting her prince who arrives on a motorcycle and in leather, then takes her to his palace to make her dance. She will not lose her glass slipper, but she will instead discover herself in a new light and through new friends.
By choosing the setting of the city of Rome, unfolding across both splendid daytime landscapes and a sensual nighttime world, the house of Valentino seeks to free the beautiful Roman capital from the clichés that see it as a sleeping beauty in its past.
Of course, the soundtrack, which begins with a Verdi air and ends in a hip hop rhythm by the group Serious Klein and Surkin, adds its own obvious singularity to this advertisement for Born in Roma Donna.
Adut Akech, this Valentino queen of Born in Roma Donna
In this video, I only had to be myself, and that is precisely what I loved about this project. That is not to say that I am the best dancer, but I love music and I worked hard to dance properly. Adut Akech on the Born in Roma advertisement for www.refinery29.com
And that is precisely what, from the very start, seems obvious in this Born in Roma campaign: the disconcerting naturalness of the splendid Adut Akech, who lights up the screen! We already knew the young woman from the runways, her striking beauty having made her one of the essential top models of recent years; this time, in her role as the face of Born in Roma Donna, she shows us that she is not only stunning, she also knows how to use it to tell a story and create emotion.
Donna Born in Roma, a fragrant composition between shadows and light
Composed by perfumers Amandine Marie and Honorine Blanc, Born in Roma Donna aims to be a couture floriental that plays with warmth and coolness to let us glimpse a fiery femininity.
Because Born in Roma Donna first opens on a chilled start guided by pink pepper and citrus. At heart, jasmine comes to make everything shine before plunging into a delight of woody notes led by cashmeran, guaiac wood and vanilla.
The Born in Roma advertisement, or Rome in the beauty of its contrasts
Born in Roma is one of the most original advertisements currently out there, as it plays with Rome's highly architectural image in order to break it apart with an absolute rock edge. The fairy tale that unfolds is also drawn entirely in keeping with this offbeat image, which gives tremendous charm to these two almost contradictory heroes, the Born in Roma man and woman.
The return to the roots of the house of Valentino orchestrated by Born in Roma Donna
The house of the two couturiers Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti was born in Rome in 1960. And it was through this city, which at the time was the world capital of cinema, that the house of Valentino would achieve dazzling worldwide success. Quite logically, then, the house's artistic director since 2016, Pierpaolo Piccioli, sought to keep this mythical past alive by giving birth to the two Born in Roma fragrances.