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 ...

Alessandro Michele is the new creative director of Valentino ... Michele is surely thrilled to be staying in his hometown of Rome, where Valentino was founded as a couture salon in 1960 by ...

“In his new role, Alessandro Michele will be based in Rome, the creative heart of our house, the city where it was founded in 1960,” the statement said. Michele, 51, left Gucci in ...

But he also remembers seeing Cardinals walking Rome streets in red dresses. Alessandro Michele on the runway at the Valentino Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2025 fashion show as ... [+] part of Paris ...

How should we make sense of Alessandro Michele’s enormous Tudor-style pyramid ... But this season the Rome-based house’s new creative director left a document on every seat so thick it ...

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

Time doesn’t exist. The ritual of making is completely different.” Beyond his prowess as a designer, Michele is a thinker, and truly one of the most interesting people in the industry.

Assessing Alessandro Michele’s couture debut for Valentino ... seemed to have been unearthed from 1960s movie sets at Cinecittà studios in Rome (or the Valentino archives, as in the case ...

As the most hotly anticipated show of the week, Valentino’s spring/summer 2025 show was Alessandro Michele’s debut couture outing at the Italian fashion house. The collection was titled ...

PARIS (AP) — Alessandro Michele’s Valentino couture debut was ... It's an obsession that traces back to his childhood in Rome, where he would rummage through his mother’s closet, captivated ...