Alessandro Michele Valentino’s New Creative Director

Alessandro Michele Valentino’s New Creative Director

Alessandro Michele has been appointed as Valentino’s New Creative Director.  The designer’s first day at the Couture House will be next Tuesday, 2 April. His debut collection under the Valentino flag will be Spring/Summer 2025: under current plans, it will be unveiled during this September’s edition of Paris Fashion Week at what will be the most anticipated show of the season.

In a statement on his Instagram channel, Michele said “It is a great honor for me to be welcomed into the Maison Valentino. I feel the immense joy and enormous responsibility in entering a Maison de Couture that has engraved the word “beauty” in a collective history made of refinement and extreme grace. My first thought goes to this story: to the richness of its cultural and symbolic heritage, to the sense of wonder that it has constantly been able to generate, to the precious identity that its founding fathers, Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti, gave to it with unbridled love.

These are references that have always represented an indispensable source of inspiration for me and to which I intend to pay homage by rereading them through my creative vision. I cannot help but sincerely thank Rachid Mohamed Rachid for offering me this unrepeatable opportunity. His trust is a gift of the soul that I will try to honor with my work and my complete dedication. My thanks, immense and boundless, to Jacopo Venturini. Going back to work with him is a wonderful dream come true for me. Jacopo is not only an extraordinary professional, capable of combining pragmatism and strategic ability, skills and sensitivity. Above all, he is a man capable of celebrating the daily love of life, with his passions and his ability to care. Today I’m looking for the most suitable words to express joy, to pay homage to it: the smiles that kick in the chest, the sense of profound gratitude that lights up the eyes, that precious moment in which necessity and beauty reach out to each other. However, joy is such a living thing that I fear hurting it by saying it. May my bow with arms wide open be enough to celebrate, in this early spring, the life that regenerates and the promise of new blooms.”