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 ...

Valentino creative director Alessandro Michele, the Italian designer who ... sailors and waterfowl for inspiration (the title was “Le Naufrage” or “Shipwreck”). Viktor & Rolf is another ...

Jenner’s gown was not dissimilar to de Saint Sernin’s entire outing for Gaultier, which he titled “Le Naufrage ... and why. At Valentino, Alessandro Michele went deep into some cuckoo ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Assessing Alessandro Michele’s couture debut for Valentino. Also ... playing an English governess romping through the fields of Le Petit Trianon in a floral silk chiffon shirtdress with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.