'Frivolousness is not useless,' says the newly installed creative director in his first runway show for the house, which brimmed with possibility.
Alessandro Michele doesn’t side with subtlety. A hushed landscape of dimly lit lamps, birdcages, and other antique ephemera with cascading white fabric draped over it set the scene. Michele stalwarts Elton John and David Furnish, Harry Styles, Hari Nef, and Florence Welch all perched in the front row. The lyrics of “Passacaglia della Vita” rang out over the space at Alessandro Michele’s first official runway show since being installed as creative director of Valentino earlier this year.
Michele explained that he looked closely at work from Valentino’s 1970s golden age and its sophistication—exemplified in the heavily embroidered gowns found in the archives, which he reinterpreted with fine sequin detailings. It was an explosion of ideas. Eighty-five, in fact. Ruffles shot out from hips in tiered knee-length skirts. Lace bodysuits and tights anchored most looks in black and white.
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