Maria Grazia Chuiri and Pierpaolo Piccioli are producing the type of Valentino Collections that bleeds my soul.

I tell myself – it’s only clothes…but my heart knows better.

It’s as if they’ve stepped inside my head and cherry picked my favourite things: Blanket coats, proper boots, Doc shoes, loose but crisp, colours on the side of dusky..and handed them to me as a lighter than air, perfectly baked clafoutis.

The proportions make me smile with pure pleasure.

At first glance I thought this was a play on the boyfriend blazer..it is, but better – it’s a cape.

So clever.

How do they get it so right?

And then there is the Butterfly motif, Damien Hirst re-invented.

How understated can this be? And still pack a punch..

I need to lie down.

Laters, Kate x