In approaching his first Haute Couture collection, "Vertigineaux" for Maison Valentino, or any label, Alessandro Michele looked to Umberto Eco’s 2009 book "The Infinity of Lists" as a beacon.

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 his ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in ... same patterned silk-cloque fabric from the Valentino archive; she also wore a pair of John Lennon sunglasses from which dangled gold sequins, and ...

The above quote could only come from Alessandro Michele, who joins Nicole Phelps on this episode of The Run-Through for a ...

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 ...

For his debut collection at the French house, the designer left 100-page documents as show notes on every seat at the runway ...

To decipher one of Alessandro Michele’s press releases can be a degree-level task: the thick tome left on each seat at the Italian designer’s first haute couture collection for Valentino, held in ...

PARIS — Alessandro Michele’s Valentino couture debut was the most anticipated ticket of Paris Couture Week, and the designer didn't disappoint with a lavish spectacle at the Palais Brongniart ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s ... all made from the same patterned silk-cloque fabric from the Valentino archive; she also wore a pair of John Lennon sunglasses from ...

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.