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The most fashionable spot in Paris? Valentino’s public bathroom
Models emerged from toilet stalls and celebrities posed by sinks after Valentino’s Alessandro Michele transformed his Paris Fashion Week venue into an atmospheric tiled restroom.
Valentino's Michele upends high fashion by setting Paris show inside staged public toilets
Valentino paraded high fashion inside public toilets in one of the season’s most unexpected backdrops, especially for a house as classical as Valentino. The set was a meticulous recreation, down to the tiling, soap dispensers, mirrors and endless rows of stalls, all bathed in an unsettling, almost seedy red light.
Valentino’s Alessandro Michele Said Meet Me in the Bathroom
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). It served as quite the photo-op backdrop for VIP guests,
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Public, private, and political: Valentino turns a staged restroom into high fashion’s boldest stage
A show that explored the boundaries between public and private, intimacy and exposure, and the ever-blurred lines of identity in contemporary fashion. Models emerged from toilet cubicles, some stopping to inspect their faces in the mirrors,
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Valentino Fall 2025 Explores the In-Between of Dressing Up (and Down)
The collection was "proudly political because it can subvert any rigid, binary classification," said designer Alessandro ...
Doechii Holds Court in Yellow Ballgown From Alessandro Michele’s Valentino Debut Collection at Louvre’s Grand Fashion Dinner
Doechii brightened up the Louvre on Tuesday. Among the many guests at the Paris museum’s first Grand Fashion Dinner, the ...
Celebrities Front Row at Valentino Fall 2025: Jared Leto, Parker Posey Hang in Alessandro Michele's Public Bathroom
Jared Leto almost hit the runway for Sunday's Valentino show, but in the end the actor stayed as part of the audience in his ...
Doechii’s Fashion Reaches a Pinnacle at Paris Fashion Week
From sitcom-inspired music videos to viral Tiny Desk sets and a spectacular Grammys debut, Doechii has proven herself to be ...
Big Drama Cannot Distract From Irrelevant Clothes
It’s the wrong moment for the fashion theatrics of Valentino, McQueen and Dior. But Balenciaga got it right. By Vanessa ...
Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber’s daughter Kai, 16, makes runway debut at Paris Fashion Week
Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber’s daughter, Kai Schreiber, made her parents proud when she made her runway debut for Valentino ...
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A Guide to Doechii’s Marathon Paris Fashion Week
This season is Doechii’s first time attending Paris Fashion Week, but you’d hardly know it judging by the Grammy winner’s ...
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Doechii's Yellow Disney Princess Valentino Couture Gown Took 800 Hours to Make
The design, which was one of the first from Valentino’s new creative director, Alessandro ... hours to construct. Michele, who unveiled the Vertigineux collection at Paris Fashion Week in ...