On their visit to New York in December, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, the creative directors of Valentino, were contemplating American women.

"There's something effortless in your women," Piccioli says. "To go outside with the coffee and the handbag...They feel confident and they express themselves. They don't need to be working girl or lovers or wives. They can be all. This is freedom, and that's very modern."

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