The above quote could only come from Alessandro Michele, who joins Nicole Phelps on this episode of The Run-Through for a formidable conversation about his new life chez Valentino. Last year, the ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s closet and to run his hands over the rustling taffeta, glinting sequins, ...

Previously presented at Paris Fashion Week, Valentino’s Spring/Summer 2025 collection is now presented in a new eclectic ...

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.

To decipher one of Alessandro Michele’s press releases can be a degree ... and embellishment of each of the collection’s looks). So in the book’s pages were Michele’s own lists, an attempt to distil ...

Alessandro Michele doesn’t side with subtlety. A hushed landscape of dimly lit lamps, birdcages, and other antique ephemera ...