Paris Fashion Week: the definitive Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show schedule Fashion Week Haute Couture returns to Paris from Monday January 27 to Thursday January 30, 2025. Hot on the heels of menswear, this new week is punctuated by runway shows and presentations unveiling the collections for the Spring-Summer 2025 season. [Read more]

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, and other adornments of time past.

From Alessandro Michele's couture debut to Demna's special award, ELLE catches you up on everything you need to know.

This afternoon in Paris (29 Janaury 2025), the Italian designer hit new heights with an eclectic, era-traversing couture collection for Valentino

The pop superstar’s pink shoes were at odds with the moody theatrics on the runway, which was a celebration of fashion as sheer theatre

Valentino’s dizzying display rocks the boat at Paris haute couture week - Alessandro Michele’s couture debut certainly made an impression on show goers

The Italian designer revealed 48 dresses, all fundamentally inspired by an idea at the nexus of infinity by Umberto Eco. See every look.

For his debut collection at the French house, the designer left 100-page documents as show notes on every seat at the runway show.

Assessing Alessandro Michele’s couture debut for Valentino. Plus, Armani Privè and Chanel keep things moving and Gaurav Gupta surprises.

The classic suiting component is getting remixed into women's wardrobes in new ways. See how celebrities are rocking the power symbol and ways to style it.

“Mistress of her own destiny” with aspirations to be a bourgeois is how he described the woman he imagined this spring. Each of the 20-odd sketches had classically French first names. These were a nod to notorious brothel keeper Madame Claude, whose sophisticated “girls” allegedly went on to become princesses, actresses or society wives.