The Creative Director: Alessandro Michele
The Creative Director: Alessandro Michele
28-03-2024 - Maison Valentino announced the appointment of Alessandro Michele as Creative Director effective 2 April 2024, based out of Rome, the creative heart of our Maison and the city where it was founded in 1960.
This moment marked the beginning of a new journey aimed at continuing to shine forth the brand's unique values, its heritage and its couture codes through the extraordinary perspective and rich experience of Alessandro Michele.
“Over the past twelve years, as a team, we dedicated our time and resources to developing Maison Valentino and its business into a world-class Haute Couture House based on the extraordinary heritage of Valentino Garavani, which fully represents the concept of elegance and beauty. We were able to grow the reputation and size of the House more than five-fold, while earning the loyalty and appreciation of our customers.
The appointment of Alessandro Michele marks another pivotal moment for Maison Valentino. Michele is an exceptional talent and this underscores our great ambitions for the House. I firmly believe that with his singular creativity and sensibility, he will continue to elevate the eternal legacy of the brand and its identity as an unparalleled Italian Maison de Couture.
With Alessandro Michele, a new page of excellence and infinite beauty is ready to be written in the history of Valentino.”
The appointment of Alessandro Michele marks another pivotal moment for Maison Valentino. Michele is an exceptional talent and this underscores our great ambitions for the House. I firmly believe that with his singular creativity and sensibility, he will continue to elevate the eternal legacy of the brand and its identity as an unparalleled Italian Maison de Couture.
With Alessandro Michele, a new page of excellence and infinite beauty is ready to be written in the history of Valentino.”
Rachid Mohamed Rachid, Chairman Valentino
“I am very happy and excited to be working with Alessandro Michele again, after years of working together.
His talent, his creativity, his profound intelligence always tied to a wonderful lightness, will write another chapter of Maison Valentino. I am certain that the reinterpretation of the Maison's codes and the heritage created by Mr. Valentino Garavani combined with Alessandro’s extraordinary vision will grace us moments of great feeling and will translate into irresistibly desirable objects.”
His talent, his creativity, his profound intelligence always tied to a wonderful lightness, will write another chapter of Maison Valentino. I am certain that the reinterpretation of the Maison's codes and the heritage created by Mr. Valentino Garavani combined with Alessandro’s extraordinary vision will grace us moments of great feeling and will translate into irresistibly desirable objects.”
Jacopo Venturini, CEO Valentino
“It is a great honour for me to be welcomed into Maison Valentino. I feel the immense joy and enormous responsibility of entering a Maison de Couture that has inscribed the word ‘beauty’ onto a collective history of refinement and extreme grace.
My first thoughts relate to this history: to the richness of its cultural and symbolic heritage, to the sense of wonder it has continuously been able to generate, to the precious identity its founding fathers, Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti, have given it with unbridled love. These references have always represented an indispensable source of inspiration for me, and I intend to pay homage to them by reinterpreting them through my creative vision.
I cannot but sincerely thank Rachid Mohamed Rachid for offering me this unparalleled opportunity. His trust is a gift of the soul that I will try to honour with my work and my utmost dedication.
My immense and boundless thanks to Jacopo Venturini. Getting to work with him again is for me a wonderful dream come true. Jacopo is not just an extraordinary professional, able to combine pragmatism and strategic skills, competency and sensitivity. He is above all a man capable of celebrating the everyday way we fall in love in life, with his passions and his attention to detail.
Today I am looking for the most suitable words to express joy, to pay tribute to it: the smiles that kicks you right in the chest, the sense of deep gratitude that lights up the eyes, that precious moment when necessity and beauty extend each other a hand. Joy, however, is something so alive that I fear injuring it, just saying it.
So let my bow with open arms be enough to celebrate, in this beginning of spring, with life regenerating itself and the promise of new blooms.”
My first thoughts relate to this history: to the richness of its cultural and symbolic heritage, to the sense of wonder it has continuously been able to generate, to the precious identity its founding fathers, Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti, have given it with unbridled love. These references have always represented an indispensable source of inspiration for me, and I intend to pay homage to them by reinterpreting them through my creative vision.
I cannot but sincerely thank Rachid Mohamed Rachid for offering me this unparalleled opportunity. His trust is a gift of the soul that I will try to honour with my work and my utmost dedication.
My immense and boundless thanks to Jacopo Venturini. Getting to work with him again is for me a wonderful dream come true. Jacopo is not just an extraordinary professional, able to combine pragmatism and strategic skills, competency and sensitivity. He is above all a man capable of celebrating the everyday way we fall in love in life, with his passions and his attention to detail.
Today I am looking for the most suitable words to express joy, to pay tribute to it: the smiles that kicks you right in the chest, the sense of deep gratitude that lights up the eyes, that precious moment when necessity and beauty extend each other a hand. Joy, however, is something so alive that I fear injuring it, just saying it.
So let my bow with open arms be enough to celebrate, in this beginning of spring, with life regenerating itself and the promise of new blooms.”
Alessandro Michele, Creative Director Valentino
Alessandro Michele's Paris debut, with the Valentino Pavillon des Folies show, took place on 29 September 2024.
