Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Valentino is a place that has a very specific soul,” muses its designer, Alessandro Michele. “Not a soul of a ...

Alessandro Michele's Fall 2025 collection for Valentino was an exploration of personal identity within communal spaces.

Today at Paris Fashion Week, Alessandro Michele set his Valentino fall/winter 2025 show on a Lynchian red-lit set that was part locker room, part club bathroom (complete with flashing lights).

He and Valentino artistic director Alessandro Michele famously twinned at the Met ... Posey demurred on having any knowledge ...

Valentino paraded high fashion inside public ... Partly inspired by David Lynch, the space set the tone for Alessandro Michele’s bold new vision. With a background in costume design, Michele ...

Today, we got up close and personal with Alessandro Michele’s Valentino. The creative director held the house’s Fall show inside a dystopian, David Lynchian reconstruction of a public bathroom.

Alessandro Michele’s set for his sophomore Valentino ready-to-wear show acknowledged the lure of the illicit. Guests emerged through a cubicle door into a giant public toilet bathed in red light ...