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 ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s ...

Just a few days before Alessandro Michele’s inaugural Valentino couture show, the Italian designer welcomed Vogue into one of the house's five Paris ateliers, where master seamstresses were hard ...

The designer, who previously helmed Gucci, takes his debut Valentino Haute Couture collection to the Palais Brongniart ...

To decipher one of Alessandro Michele’s press releases can be a degree-level task ... like both his debut ready-to-wear collection for the house and his star-making collections at Gucci, was ...

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 ...

PARIS — Alessandro Michele’s Valentino couture debut was ... making his appointment at Valentino — a house steeped in aristocratic elegance — both a natural evolution and a challenge.

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 joined the most rarefied ranks of ...

Alessandro Michele’s first couture collection for Valentino reimagines the house’s legacy with rich historical references.