{"id":100432,"date":"2025-03-10T17:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=265577"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:55:16","slug":"valentino-fall-winter-2025","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/valentino-fall-winter-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"PFW: The Theatre Of The Self At Valentino Fall\/Winter 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_265579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-265579\" style=\"width: 1707px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-265579\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/001_VALENTINO_FW2526-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"valentino-fall-winter-2025\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-265579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valentino Fall\/Winter 2025 \/ Images: supplied<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In his shownotes for Fall\/Winter 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/alessandro-michele-departs-gucci\/\">Alessandro Michele<\/a> speaks of the &#8220;unspeakable desire to unify the irreducible kaleidoscope of our self&#8221; as an exercise in futility, exclaiming an &#8216;authentic self&#8217;, one untouched by the sticky fingers of societal influence, as a myth.<\/p>\n<p>Blurring the lines between the private and the public, a public bathroom\u2014in all its clinical, fluorescent-lit glory\u2014became the unexpected runway for the designer&#8217;s second ready-to-wear <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/valentino-haute-couture-spring-summer-2025-alessandro-michele\/\">collection<\/a> for Valentino. And in this liminal space, where identity\u2014and its many elements\u2014is both liberated and reconfigured, hidden and exposed, Michele mediates on performance as pure intimacy and the fundamental question: Who are we?<\/p>\n<p>Much like the setting and Michele himself, the clothes rejected simplicity. In exploring intimacy as a theatre of transformation, this season saw an assemblage of eclectic pairings, with layers upon layers tactfully masking, revealing and styling that imparted a sense of unplacability. Voluminous coats swallowed the body whole, only to be undone with a single movement, revealing delicate slip dresses in liquid-like silk.\u00a0Textures clashed like opposing identities: structured wool met sheer organza, sculpted leather dissolved into barely-there chiffon. Velvet opera gloves stretched past the elbows, while oppulent embellishments grazed fluffy trims. A palette of inky blacks, dusty rose, deep plum, and ghostly whites was punctuated by flashes of Valentino red\u2014reinvigorated by its new chapter.<\/p>\n<p>As models paused under the harsh glow of bathroom mirrors, adjusting collars, tightening belts, tousling hair, the act of dressing reflected a ritual of self-creation. Here, in a manner most Lynchian, identity is never fixed, only pieced together through pieces of codified performance\u2014layered and shifting like a narrative with no final act.<\/p>\n<p>While he doesn&#8217;t posit to know what it all means, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alessandro_michele\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Michele<\/a> invites us all to embrace the theatre of existence and let go of fixed senses of self. As a designer known for his whimsical creativity and campy grandeur, he suggests that perhaps it&#8217;s all just costumes and masks and that there is a beauty in the freedom to be who we want to be whenever we want to be it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265580\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002_VALENTINO_FW2526-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"valentino-fall-winter-2025\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265581\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/004_VALENTINO_FW2526-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265582\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/005_VALENTINO_FW2526-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"valentino-fall-winter-2025\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" \/> <img 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