This and the week’s other couture collections were unveiled as luxury groups wrestle with a year-long spending slowdown, ...

Alessandro Michele’s first couture collection for Valentino reimagines the house’s legacy with rich historical references.

Once the show got underway, a kind of digital ticker tape ran across the backdrop streaming even more words and proper names. Knowing that Michele is mad for Walter Benjamin, author of Arcades Project ...

The news of Alessandro Michele joining Valentino as the Creative Director was fashion music to my ears. Michele proved his ...

Valentino presented a dizzying display at Paris haute couture week, fusing the past ... Vintage florals sprawled evening gowns (Lewis Joly/AP) It was with excitement that Valentino served up ...

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 pages ...

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. Demi ...

A model wears a creation as part of the Valentino Haute Couture Spring Summer 2025 collection, that was presented in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly). A model wears a ...

In Paris this week, fashion houses relied on proven formulas, striving for light, feminine collections. Brands like Chanel emphasised their visual ...