Gucci ousts chief designer De Sarno after sales slump
Luxury giant Gucci announced Thursday it was parting ways with its chief designer Sabato De Sarno following a sales slump, in ...
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Inside Alessandro Michele’s first Valentino couture show
IF HAUTE COUTURE were a stage, Alessandro Michele just made his grand entrance — stepping up not quietly, but with a full orchestra of ruffles, drama, and Valentino-red grandeur. The former ...
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Valentino, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Once the show got underway, a kind of digital ticker tape ran across the backdrop streaming even more words and proper names. Knowing that Michele is mad for Walter Benjamin, author of Arcades Project ...
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Valentino’s dizzying display rocks the boat at Paris haute couture week
Michele fused vintage prints with modern details (Lewis Joly/PA) As the most hotly anticipated show of the week, Valentino’s spring/summer 2025 show was Alessandro Michele’s debut couture ...
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Alessandro Michele Debuts Valentino Couture Full Of Historical Cues
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.
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Alessandro Michele brings dark drama and Elton John to Valentino
They were enough to bring a minimalist out in hives. This was Alessandro Michele’s first couture show for Valentino. In fact, his first couture show as creative director anywhere. The ...
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The Problem With Mistaking Costumes for Clothes
Assessing Alessandro Michele’s couture debut for Valentino. Also ... One that also included a quote from the Italian philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco and then list upon list of yet more ...
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Alessandro Michele’s inaugural haute couture collection for Valentino is a masterclass in maximalist grandeur
It was the most anticipated moment of this season’s Paris Couture Week. Alessandro Michele - the genius behind Gucci’s seven-year buffet of chintz, glitz and crystal-encrusted avant-garde that saw the ...
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Valentino Couture Spring 2025 Proves Alessandro Michele Is Fashion’s Intellectual Hitmaker
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 ...
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Valentino Couture Is Sublimely Transportive
Few people currently working in fashion have brains like Alessandro ... creative director at Valentino, are so damn magical. This week, particularly in America, we needed Michele’s wizardry ...
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Valentino Couture Is Sublimely Transportive
Few people currently working in fashion have brains like Alessandro Michele’s ... most recently as creative director at Valentino, are so damn magical. This week, particularly in America, we needed ...