Rebecca Vallance Signature Styles Explained

Search for a Rebecca Vallance piece and you will usually be searching a first name. Venus, Mariya, Noire, Jacquie, Tallon. The house names every style and then reuses that name across lengths, colourways and garment types, which is useful once you understand the system and confusing until you do. This is a reference to the naming convention and to the style families in the current collection.

How the naming works

A Rebecca Vallance style name identifies a design, not a single product. The name is followed by the garment type and, where more than one colourway exists, the shade.

So the Venus family includes a Venus Gown, a Venus Midi Dress and a Venus Mini Dress, each cut in both black and gold. That is six products under one style name. When you search a bare style name you are searching a family, and you need the length and the shade to land on a single piece.

Three consequences worth knowing. A style name can span dresses and separates, as Jacquie does. A style name persists across seasons, so an older piece under the same name may be a different design. And two products can share a style number while differing only in colour, which is why the shade appears in the product name.

The dress families

Venus

The most complete family in the collection, and the only one cut across all three lengths in two colourways. Every Venus piece carries a custom diamante embellished bow and is made in a structured polyester acetate blend. The Venus Gown in Gold is an antique gold with a sculpted shoulder bow, and the Venus Gown in Black is the same design in black. The midi and mini follow.

Mariya

A three-length black family with a cleaner line than Venus and no embellishment. The Mariya Gown, the Mariya Midi Dress and the Mariya Mini Dress. This is the family to look at for a plain black occasion dress.

Noire

Gowns only, and the most formal name in the collection. The Noire Long Sleeve Gown is the most covered piece in the range, and the Noire Short Sleeve Gown is its warmer-weather counterpart.

Raziel

The red family, running across a gown, a long sleeve gown and a mini dress.

Gilded Floral

The print family, and the largest dress group at four pieces. It runs a mini, a midi, a maxi and a long sleeve maxi. If you want the season’s print, this is where it lives.

Glimmer

The sequin family. Both the Glimmer Gown and the Glimmer Mini Dress are all-over glass sequin in a bronze chocolate that behaves like a metallic under light.

Tallon and Melora

Two midi families that are easy to confuse. Tallon is the draped cowl-neck group, and it extends into tops as well as a long sleeve midi dress. Melora is the printed short-sleeve group, cut as a midi and a mini.

Beau, Esmeralda, Violetta and Kiana

Smaller families. Beau covers a long sleeve gown and a midi dress. Esmeralda and Violetta are single red midi dresses. Kiana spans a maxi dress, a mini dress and a top.

The families that cross into separates

Three style names run across dresses and tailoring at once, which is where the naming system earns its keep.

Jacquie is the six-piece cream boucle group with a contrast black braid, covering a dress in two lengths plus a jacket, a skirt, a pant and a top. Odilia is the black tailoring group, spanning a blazer, a straight pant and two double breasted blazer dresses. Meringue covers a jacket, a skirt, a midi dress and a blazer mini dress.

The two remaining tailoring names, Dauphine and Marietta, sit only in separates. All of them are covered in detail in our guide to Rebecca Vallance tailoring and separates.

Using the names when you shop

If you know a style name and want the current version, search the name and then filter by length. If you have seen a piece from an older season and cannot find it, the name may have been carried forward onto a different design, so match on the silhouette rather than trusting the name alone.

Every family in the current collection is on the Rebecca Vallance brand page. For help choosing between them, read which Rebecca Vallance dress to buy, and are Rebecca Vallance dresses worth it for an account of the construction.

Frequently asked questions

How does Rebecca Vallance name its styles?

Each design is given a first name, such as Venus and Mariya, followed by the garment type and, where more than one colourway exists, the shade. A style name identifies a family rather than a single product, so one name can cover a gown, a midi and a mini in several colours.

What is the Rebecca Vallance Venus dress?

Venus is the most complete style family in the current collection. It is cut as a gown, a midi dress and a mini dress, each in black and in an antique gold, and every piece carries a custom diamante embellished bow in a structured polyester acetate blend.

Why do two Rebecca Vallance products have the same name?

Because the name identifies a design rather than an individual product. The same style is cut across different lengths and colourways, and each combination is sold separately. The garment type and shade in the product name distinguish them.

Which Rebecca Vallance style families include separates as well as dresses?

Jacquie, Odilia and Meringue. Jacquie is a six-piece cream boucle group covering dresses, a jacket, a skirt, a pant and a top. Odilia spans a blazer, a straight pant and two blazer dresses. Meringue covers a jacket, a skirt, a midi dress and a blazer mini dress.