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.

Alessandro Michele takes a bow at the end of the Valentino spring 2025 haute couture show. You must care about the dress and every single detail and what you’re doing, what is going to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some designers want to cut through the noise. Alessandro Michele is embracing it. He titled his spring 2025 couture collection “Vertigineux,” and proceeded to stare down into the dizzying ...

You really feel that everything started from the Haute Couture. It’s almost everywhere ... Beyond his prowess as a designer, Michele is a thinker, and truly one of the most interesting people ...

"Globally, the haute couture is doing well," Sidney Toledano ... (Valentino is transitioning to a new creative director, Alessandro Michele, while Fendi is "rescheduling its shows.") ...

PARIS — Imagine being a Roman-born designer and being handed the keys to the most quintessentially Roman couture house. For Alessandro Michele, who on Wednesday ... Stakes Renee Zellweger Goes ...