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.

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 ...

Alessandro Michele - the genius behind Gucci’s seven-year buffet ... revive and refresh a heritage house in future-proof splendour - debuted his first ever haute couture line for Valentino, the maison ...

Alessandro Michele takes a bow at the end of the Valentino spring 2025 haute couture show. I’m stressed, nervous, but happy. It’s a different way of working. You must care about the dress and ...

To decipher one of Alessandro Michele’s press releases can be a degree-level task: the thick tome left on each seat at the Italian designer’s first haute couture collection for Valentino, held in ...

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 ...

This was Alessandro Michele’s first couture show for ... That really would light a bonfire under Couture week. Valentino Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 Credit: Getty Valentino Haute Couture ...

Valentino presented a dizzying display at Paris haute couture week ... Valentino’s spring/summer 2025 show was Alessandro Michele’s debut couture outing at the Italian fashion house.