Alessandro Michele takes the reins at the legendary maison of Valentino-with breathtaking results. A look from Valentino's ...
I was puzzled as to why Michele was using the third person: Was the dress a close reproduction of something from the archive, or something new? Was this Valentino Garavani, or Alessandro Michele?
In approaching his first Haute Couture collection, "Vertigineaux" for Maison Valentino, or any label, Alessandro Michele looked to Umberto Eco’s 2009 book "The Infinity of Lists" as a beacon.
Previously presented at Paris Fashion Week, Valentino’s Spring/Summer 2025 collection is now presented in a new eclectic ...
Assessing Alessandro Michele’s couture debut for Valentino. Also, Armani Privé and Chanel keep things moving and Gaurav Gupta surprises. By Vanessa Friedman Reporting from Paris As the curtain ...
For Alessandro Michele, who on Wednesday joined the most rarefied ranks of his profession with his debut made-to-measure collection for Valentino, it was both dazzling and a little bit dizzying.
How should we make sense of Alessandro Michele’s enormous Tudor-style pyramid dresses and eighteenth-century pannier skirts at his first couture show for Valentino? It didn’t look like ...
The Italian luxury brand’s creative director Alessandro Michele is behind the surreal vision, which is to promote the latest ...
For his first haute couture collection for Valentino, Alessandro Michele dropped a stack of paper the size of a dissertation on each seat. Held together by a metal paper fastener were pages and ...
He found it to be “an incredible journey” and “very meaningful” to see the painstaking handcrafting a made-to-measure piece goes through and work with the petites mains, of whom he says, “I had to ...
I was puzzled as to why Michele was using the third person: was the dress a close reproduction of something from the archive, or something new? Was this Valentino Garavani, or Alessandro Michele?