The suspense didn’t last long. In 1960 Valentino Garavani created, together with Giancarlo Giammetti, the Italian fashion house that bears his name. In 2008, she handed over the artistic direction to Alessandra Facchinetti from 2008 to 2010, then to the tandem Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli (where they already worked together at Fendi) until 2017. That year Maria Grazia Chiuri took over the artistic direction of Le Dior’s women’s collections, leaving only Pierpaolo Piccioli as CEO of Valentino. He shined during his tenure which officially ended on March 22, 2024. While the fashion industry was eager to know who would replace him, on March 28, 2024 the news finally arrived: he is Alessandro Michele.
Who is Alessandro Michele, Valentino’s new artistic director?
Born on November 25, 1972 in Rome, Alessandro Michele studied fashion and costume at the Fashion AcademyAcademy of Costume and Fashion of the Italian capital. He then worked for various brands in the country such as Les Copains, then Fendi alongside Silvia Venturini and Karl Lagerfeld, before arriving at Gucci (at the time of Frida Giannini). He became artistic director in 2015, impressing with his baroque collisions and his choice of muses such as Harry Styles, Jared Leto and Dakota Johnson. Following a slowdown in sales, he was replaced in 2022 by Sabato di Sarno. His official appointment as head of Valentino therefore sounds like good news for fans of maximalist fashion.
In a post on Instagram, Alessandro Michele expressed his gratitude following his appointment:
“It is a great honor for me to be welcomed into the Casa Valentino. I feel the immense joy and enormous responsibility of entering a Haute Couture Maison 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 wonder it has constantly aroused, to the precious identity given to it by its founding fathers, Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti. with unbridled love. They are references that have always represented an essential source of inspiration for me and to which I intend to pay homage by rereading them through my creative vision.
I can’t help but sincerely thank Rachid Mohamed for giving me this unique opportunity. His trust is a gift of the soul that I will try to honor through my work and my total dedication.
My thanks, immense and limitless, 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 his love of life on a daily basis, with his passions and his attention span.
Today I am looking for the most suitable words to express joy, to pay homage to it: the smiles that hit the chest, the feeling of deep gratitude that lights up the eyes, this precious moment in which necessity and beauty meet. each other. But joy is such a living thing that I’m afraid of hurting it by saying it.
My bow with open arms is enough to celebrate, at the beginning of spring, the life that regenerates and the promise of new blooms. »
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