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).

Partly inspired by David Lynch, the space set the tone for Alessandro Michele’s bold new vision. With a background in costume design, Michele infuses his collections with inspirations from ...

FOR HIS SECOND ready-to-wear collection since signing on as Valentino’s creative director 12 months ago, Alessandro Michele painted the town red. Part of it, at least: a large box set installed ...

Partly inspired by David Lynch, the space set the tone for Alessandro Michele’s provocative new vision. With a background in costume design, Michele infuses his collections with inspirations from ...

Alessandro Michele’s set for his sophomore Valentino ready-to-wear show acknowledged the lure of the illicit. Guests emerged through a cubicle door into a giant public toilet bathed in red light ...

Today, we got up close and personal with Alessandro Michele’s Valentino. The creative director held the house’s Fall show inside a dystopian, David Lynchian reconstruction of a public bathroom.

That’s the thought that came to mind stepping through the bathroom doors into Alessandro Michele’s show space, an enormous public restroom bathed in lurid red light—a gender-neutral restroom ...

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?