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, ...

On his first day at the Valentino offices, in a late-Renaissance palazzo on the Piazza Mignanelli in Rome, Michele immersed himself in an extraordinary storehouse of garments, shoes and other objects, ...

Ipermoda" at Rome’s MAXXI Museum ... draw is undoubtedly the iconic designs on show by the likes of Gucci, Valentino, Versace, and Balenciaga – alongside jewellery and handbags by Bvlgari ...

Alessandro Michele’s Valentino couture debut was the most anticipated ... It's an obsession that traces back to his childhood in Rome, where he would rummage through his mother’s closet ...