Amid the glitzy parties and star-studded front rows of Paris Fashion Week, the hottest ticket in France’s capital on Sunday afternoon was… a public bathroom. Or a venue designed to look like ...

This was Valentino’s Fall-Winter 2025 show, which saw the Italian label’s creative director Alessandro Michele transform a Paris venue into an atmospheric bathroom, complete with tiled floors ...

Today at Paris Fashion Week, Alessandro Michele set his Valentino fall/winter 2025 show on a Lynchian red-lit set that was part locker room, part club bathroom (complete with flashing lights).

Editor’s Note: CNN Style is one of the official media partners of Paris Fashion Week. See all coverage here. Amid the glitzy parties and star-studded front rows of Paris Fashion Week, the ...

Valentino's Michele upends high fashion by setting Paris show inside staged public toilets Partly inspired by David Lynch, the space set the tone for Alessandro Michele’s provocative new vision.

During the last Paris fashion week, he set the collections of six fashion houses to music. Since the 1990s, Michel Gaubert ...

Alessandro Michele painted the town red. Part of it, at least: a large box set installed on the square in front of the Arab World Institute in Paris’ 5th arrondissement for the Valentino Fall ...

Michele often selects venues with deep historical or cultural significance — think palaces — so this public toilet setting was a clever subversion, even of his own signature style. The result?

Facing a luxury spending slump, designers are pushing ‘beyond’ on all levels. Paris Fashion Week A/W 25 was awash with an array of concepts and intricate craftsmanship that defy neat trend buckets.