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, ...

To decipher one of Alessandro Michele’s press releases can be a degree-level task: the thick tome left on each seat at the Italian designer’s first haute couture collection for Valentino, held in ...

Assessing Alessandro Michele’s couture debut for Valentino. Also, Armani Privé and Chanel keep things moving and Gaurav Gupta surprises. By Vanessa Friedman Reporting from Paris As the curtain ...

In approaching his first Haute Couture collection, "Vertigineaux" for Maison Valentino, or any label, Alessandro Michele looked to Umberto Eco’s 2009 book "The Infinity of Lists" as a beacon.

How should we make sense of Alessandro Michele’s enormous Tudor-style pyramid dresses and eighteenth-century pannier skirts at his first couture show for Valentino? It didn’t look like ...

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: ...

Williams had worn a beard for most, if not all, of his major league career, and even showed up with one on Tuesday. Devin Williams arrives at Spring Training with a beard. / New York Yankees ...

At the Directors Guild of America Awards over the weekend, Fanning slipped into a custom Valentino number by Alessandro Michele. Her innovation? Matching her scarf exactly to her shirting.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Hollywood has the Oscars, football has the Super Bowl, and the culinary world has the James Beard Foundation Awards. The non-profit organization that champions our food culture ...

Jon Alterman: Who is active promoting disinformation in the Middle East, and how are they doing it? Alessandro Accorsi: In terms of actors, there are several. There are regional actors. There are ...