Paris haute couture week - From the return of the corset to feminine frills – this season’s haute couture week had it all.

The pop superstar’s pink shoes were at odds with the moody theatrics on the runway, which was a celebration of fashion as sheer theatre

Valentino’s dizzying display rocks the boat at Paris haute couture week - Alessandro Michele’s couture debut certainly made an impression on show goers

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s closet and to run his hands over the rustling taffeta, glinting sequins, and other adornments of time past.

This afternoon in Paris (29 Janaury 2025), the Italian designer hit new heights with an eclectic, era-traversing couture collection for Valentino

The Italian designer revealed 48 dresses, all fundamentally inspired by an idea at the nexus of infinity by Umberto Eco. See every look.

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 of stream-of-consciousness lists. A random sampling: the description for look 37 included the sequence “petticoat, tundra, eschatology.”

Alessandro Michele’s first couture collection for Valentino reimagines the house’s legacy with rich historical references.

Paris Fashion Week: the definitive Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2025 show schedule Fashion Week Haute Couture returns to Paris from Monday January 27 to Thursday January 30, 2025. Hot on the heels of menswear, this new week is punctuated by runway shows and presentations unveiling the collections for the Spring-Summer 2025 season. [Read more]

For the rest of us, January feels slow, oh-so cold, and devoid of joy. Just me? For celebs, January means wintering in Aspen, evenings of Parisian elegance, and outfits that cost more than

The biggest names in fashion unveil their new collections, with a host of celebrities on hand.