ALESSANDRO Michele’s Autumn/ Winter 2025 Valentino campaign has just been released following the collection’s unveiling in Paris last Spring.
Lensed by his frequent collaborator, Glen Luchford, Le Méta-Théâtre Des Intimités stars American singer-songwriter Clairo, alongside talents including Kembra Pfahler, Aimée Byrne and Isabella Pascucci.
Maison Valentino AW25 Campaign
Maison Valentino AW25 Campaign
Posing in vivid red-tiled public restrooms to the sound of OTHA’s Club 20, the campaign film and imagery reflect the uncanny Lynchian space that the AW25 show was staged in.
According to Michele, this unique setting is where “decency collides with guilty pleasure and exposure flirts with occultation. It’s a liminal space that, in this campaign, becomes enriched with new bodies, gazes and encounters, becoming an unfailing scene of possibilities.”
Maison Valentino AW25 Campaign
Maison Valentino AW25 Campaign
Indeed, Luchford’s corresponding images exude themes of introspection, intimacy and the questioning of sartorial identity. Penning the press release himself, Michele endeavours to reject fashion as a form of novelty or an expression of a hypertrophic world with his latest release, instead opting to examine the longevity of style and the sense of self created through the act of dressing.
With Le Méta-Théâtre Des Intimités, the designer traces the teachings of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who claimed that “being and appearing coincide.” With that in mind, Michele discloses that fashion’s most powerful legacy is the shared political and poetic strength it evokes through intimacy and identity, with his latest collection made to last, and for living in.
by Ella O’Gorman