Alessandro Michele on Valentino Couture Debut
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.
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.
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 gain their trust.
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For his debut collection at the French house, the designer left 100-page documents as show notes on every seat at the runway show.
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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
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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 of stream-of-consciousness lists. A random sampling: the description for look 37 included the sequence “petticoat, tundra, eschatology.”