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Alessandro Michele - Designer, Creative Director of Valentino
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homeless chic minus the chic
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I don’t see nothing wrong with Alessandro’s style. I mean, he is character so in a way it is very cohesive.
But I must say that I prefer his partner’s outfit.
Galliano at least made the effort to contain himself before going full on Galliano. And a lot of people criticized him for not respecting the aesthetic of the house he was in.
But I must say that I prefer his partner’s outfit.
My simple answer would be that essentially, Valentino is a very different brand. A lot of hate towards Alessandro’s work is directed to that fact. Yes he was able to mold Gucci to whatever he wanted overtime. But you can’t turn the epitome of Italian Glamour into a costume fest in one season.
Galliano at least made the effort to contain himself before going full on Galliano. And a lot of people criticized him for not respecting the aesthetic of the house he was in.
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Denjo, nobody takes Galliano seriously as a fashion designer. As a clothing designer yes but fashion... With Michele, people expect a real proposition and many were disappointed because the couture show was very costumey.
I also loved the looks on Damiano ❤️ the first blazer had amazing shoulders
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i loved both looks on him...you see AM but in a less costumey way...
sadly he don't bring that to his runways or presentations...
shame...
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Loved the dress on Bianca, however it looks like a leftover from a PPP collection...bright color and feathers are so PPP coded, the style of the dress also gave me huge PPP vibes. It reminded me a lot of Naomi's MET 2019 Valentino look...
I agree with you anyways, this "toned down" and more bourgeois version of Lallo over the top dusty maximalism is more suited for Valentino.
actually I also saw similarities with this Gucci that Lupita wore in 2015, one of Alessandro Michele's first red carpets... the georgette, the bold but not sexy neckline, the jewel details...
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Well I’m also just here admiring Bianca in all her beauty amidst all her cancer treatments and chemo. Just so admirable and she looks gorgeous 💖
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Vogue España March 2025 (Reprint: US Vogue March 2025)
"De Roma al cielo"
Photographer: Annie Leibovitz
Fashion Editor: Tabitha Simmons
Hair: Shiori Takahashi
Makeup: Yadim
Featuring: Alessandro Michele
Models: Ali Dansky, Jiahui Zhang, Luiza Perote
Vogue España Digital Edition
"De Roma al cielo"
Photographer: Annie Leibovitz
Fashion Editor: Tabitha Simmons
Hair: Shiori Takahashi
Makeup: Yadim
Featuring: Alessandro Michele
Models: Ali Dansky, Jiahui Zhang, Luiza Perote
Vogue España Digital Edition
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Brief extract from his interview to italian newspaper:
**Second show for Alessandro Michele in Paris with ready-to-wear.** He receives us in Rome, at Palazzo Mignanelli, on the eve of the show, in the office that once belonged to Mr. Valentino. The furniture arrangement has changed, but the pieces remain the same. If it weren’t for the enormous desk where he never sits.
Above, the designer has meticulously reassembled, they assure, the puzzle of his fetishes—dozens and dozens of them: a crochet hat made by a friend, the laurel wreath he wore at the Met, a souvenir from Canada, a ribbon, a book, a pair of earrings, a flower. "My container. I can’t do it any other way. They were arranged like this at Gucci too… if I move them, what do I do?" And already the story begins, weaving between past and present.
**Does Alessandro Michele have vices?**
"A billion vices. I have the vice of wanting to feel good, of wanting to have fun, of beautiful things, the vice of wanting […] The canonical ones, I’ve never had: I’ve never smoked, I’ve never done drugs. It’s an attempt to preserve myself because I like to be present in my mind, and if I want to have fun, I need to be there. Ah, I also have the vice of working, a lot."
**You’re reserved, but on your Instagram profile, during important moments, you share your story.**
For example, when your lifelong friend and colleague Davide Renne passed away.
"I miss him. I know I can’t see him again. But I wish I could. It’s like a Dantean circle because he comes to mind, but he’s not here, and I don’t know where he is. We didn’t have time to say goodbye. Then you get used to it. But I still talk to him […] Davide’s death was the most negative thing in my life, but I don’t hold onto it. That is, I think it’s something fleeting, but I’m not convinced. I still wonder what it means to disappear from life. When I was little, I lost my aunt, who was like a second mother to me. So maybe I don’t even want to deal with it, or maybe, I don’t know, I’ve found my own way."
**When you left Gucci, on your social media profile, you wrote words like: perspectives, different, journey, home, family.**
"It’s all beauty […] Like in a relationship, you say it will last a lifetime, but then it ends. And for me, it was my life, but precisely for that reason, I can’t look at it with resentment. […]"
**The fashion world felt orphaned after that announcement.**
"I suffered a lot, but I was prepared, and I faced the change. Maybe others expected it less, but then they understood. Like in a family when you no longer recognize each other, I think of a father who is no longer your reference point and doesn’t let you be who you are, and you have to emancipate yourself. Gucci was like a family: and it was a journey that lasted 8 years, not 7 as everyone writes, and that’s the only thing that makes me angry (he laughs). As a studious young man, I say: how is it that I’ve almost finished all the exams of the last year, and they take everything away after all I’ve done?"
**And when you left, Gucci was still growing, though not like in the beginning.**
"18%, which today…"
From that moment on, something happened in the entire system.
"We invented the turbo: the only brand, I believe, that in the last three decades went from 3 billion to 10 in 8 years. Then I left… And then it was a decline, but I’m rooting for them to rise again: it was a bit like my home, an extraordinary place with karma inside, and it left a great affection. Yes, I’m really rooting for a rebirth bigger than the one that happened with me and with Tom Ford. […]"
**Do you think greed played a role?**
"I don’t think it’s individual greed, in the sense that we live in a world where we’re all forced, and I include myself. When I worked there, Gucci was a ten-headed monster, but I think it’s a planetary problem: humans are the animals that treat each other the worst, we’re the only ones who want to condemn our own species to death. Although I feel that now in fashion there’s a growing awareness of where we are, of what’s happening, and that the doped-up world of the economy has found a kind of healthy endpoint."
**Why Valentino?**
"It seemed like a very different challenge. Because it’s a brand that comes from couture, something completely new. Then there was Jacopo (Venturini, the CEO), we’ve always liked each other. A pole of attraction. Lastly, while I was deciding whether to do this or that, Kering bought 30%, and there was Francesca (Bellettini) and François-Henri (Pinault), so I said, 'Maybe this is exactly where I need to go.' I was lucky: after all that mess, just three days later, I received offers, even though I had changed my phone number. I had done that miracle, but I had never realized it."
**Before you, at Valentino, there was Pierpaolo Piccioli...**
"I know. The work he and Maria Grazia Chiuri did at Valentino was extraordinary. But you’ll rarely hear me talk about someone I’ve never met, I’m very authentic."
**Your partner, Giovanni Attili, a professor at Sapienza, what does he think of your world?**
"Vanni is completely immersed. We work together, but then he has his own world. If he’s in the studio, I’m always attentive. He can interrupt me. But I don’t interrupt him. He’s a hyper person, and I like that because I always want to feel like I have to earn everything."
**Is it true that Harry Styles moved to Rome for you?**
"Harry is part of our family. He’s like a younger brother. It’s strange how life makes you meet people whose life path you change, and they change yours. Now I even live with paparazzi under my house, I even greet some of them. I’m very conscious that I need to be careful. I don’t use a car, I like to walk, but they manage to take some photos of me: I always look terrible, with my hat pulled down and a serious face, but it’s fine, I won’t change: my life was and is this. Now that I’ve found my balance, I’m fine with it."
**Second show for Alessandro Michele in Paris with ready-to-wear.** He receives us in Rome, at Palazzo Mignanelli, on the eve of the show, in the office that once belonged to Mr. Valentino. The furniture arrangement has changed, but the pieces remain the same. If it weren’t for the enormous desk where he never sits.
Above, the designer has meticulously reassembled, they assure, the puzzle of his fetishes—dozens and dozens of them: a crochet hat made by a friend, the laurel wreath he wore at the Met, a souvenir from Canada, a ribbon, a book, a pair of earrings, a flower. "My container. I can’t do it any other way. They were arranged like this at Gucci too… if I move them, what do I do?" And already the story begins, weaving between past and present.
**Does Alessandro Michele have vices?**
"A billion vices. I have the vice of wanting to feel good, of wanting to have fun, of beautiful things, the vice of wanting […] The canonical ones, I’ve never had: I’ve never smoked, I’ve never done drugs. It’s an attempt to preserve myself because I like to be present in my mind, and if I want to have fun, I need to be there. Ah, I also have the vice of working, a lot."
**You’re reserved, but on your Instagram profile, during important moments, you share your story.**
For example, when your lifelong friend and colleague Davide Renne passed away.
"I miss him. I know I can’t see him again. But I wish I could. It’s like a Dantean circle because he comes to mind, but he’s not here, and I don’t know where he is. We didn’t have time to say goodbye. Then you get used to it. But I still talk to him […] Davide’s death was the most negative thing in my life, but I don’t hold onto it. That is, I think it’s something fleeting, but I’m not convinced. I still wonder what it means to disappear from life. When I was little, I lost my aunt, who was like a second mother to me. So maybe I don’t even want to deal with it, or maybe, I don’t know, I’ve found my own way."
**When you left Gucci, on your social media profile, you wrote words like: perspectives, different, journey, home, family.**
"It’s all beauty […] Like in a relationship, you say it will last a lifetime, but then it ends. And for me, it was my life, but precisely for that reason, I can’t look at it with resentment. […]"
**The fashion world felt orphaned after that announcement.**
"I suffered a lot, but I was prepared, and I faced the change. Maybe others expected it less, but then they understood. Like in a family when you no longer recognize each other, I think of a father who is no longer your reference point and doesn’t let you be who you are, and you have to emancipate yourself. Gucci was like a family: and it was a journey that lasted 8 years, not 7 as everyone writes, and that’s the only thing that makes me angry (he laughs). As a studious young man, I say: how is it that I’ve almost finished all the exams of the last year, and they take everything away after all I’ve done?"
**And when you left, Gucci was still growing, though not like in the beginning.**
"18%, which today…"
From that moment on, something happened in the entire system.
"We invented the turbo: the only brand, I believe, that in the last three decades went from 3 billion to 10 in 8 years. Then I left… And then it was a decline, but I’m rooting for them to rise again: it was a bit like my home, an extraordinary place with karma inside, and it left a great affection. Yes, I’m really rooting for a rebirth bigger than the one that happened with me and with Tom Ford. […]"
**Do you think greed played a role?**
"I don’t think it’s individual greed, in the sense that we live in a world where we’re all forced, and I include myself. When I worked there, Gucci was a ten-headed monster, but I think it’s a planetary problem: humans are the animals that treat each other the worst, we’re the only ones who want to condemn our own species to death. Although I feel that now in fashion there’s a growing awareness of where we are, of what’s happening, and that the doped-up world of the economy has found a kind of healthy endpoint."
**Why Valentino?**
"It seemed like a very different challenge. Because it’s a brand that comes from couture, something completely new. Then there was Jacopo (Venturini, the CEO), we’ve always liked each other. A pole of attraction. Lastly, while I was deciding whether to do this or that, Kering bought 30%, and there was Francesca (Bellettini) and François-Henri (Pinault), so I said, 'Maybe this is exactly where I need to go.' I was lucky: after all that mess, just three days later, I received offers, even though I had changed my phone number. I had done that miracle, but I had never realized it."
**Before you, at Valentino, there was Pierpaolo Piccioli...**
"I know. The work he and Maria Grazia Chiuri did at Valentino was extraordinary. But you’ll rarely hear me talk about someone I’ve never met, I’m very authentic."
**Your partner, Giovanni Attili, a professor at Sapienza, what does he think of your world?**
"Vanni is completely immersed. We work together, but then he has his own world. If he’s in the studio, I’m always attentive. He can interrupt me. But I don’t interrupt him. He’s a hyper person, and I like that because I always want to feel like I have to earn everything."
**Is it true that Harry Styles moved to Rome for you?**
"Harry is part of our family. He’s like a younger brother. It’s strange how life makes you meet people whose life path you change, and they change yours. Now I even live with paparazzi under my house, I even greet some of them. I’m very conscious that I need to be careful. I don’t use a car, I like to walk, but they manage to take some photos of me: I always look terrible, with my hat pulled down and a serious face, but it’s fine, I won’t change: my life was and is this. Now that I’ve found my balance, I’m fine with it."
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