Alessandro Michele's arrival at Valentino has been the season's most anticipated event. The Fall 2025 Haute Couture collection did not disappoint. The designer arrived with a clear vision: romanticism as a radical act, couture as a genuine necessity.
The references were abundant — Pre-Raphaelite painting, Roman mythology, Elizabethan portraiture — all transformed by a sensibility entirely Michele's own. The embroideries were of staggering complexity: months of atelier work visible in the play of light across a single bodice.
The eveningwear was the emotional climax: a series of gowns in the house's signature red that built to an extraordinary finale look — a volume of silk taffeta so vast it seemed almost architectural.
