excerpt: Valentino. Fall/Winter 2026, 2027 - Milan (Paris Fashion Week)
"... Is this Michele's way of clearing out the spirit of Valentino Garavani? Maybe it is, and Michele's quickly avant-garde, mixed with Valentino's gracing of 1980s hedonism, even though he later disliked it, did reflect the "PoMo" (postmodern) gentrification of New York in the late 80s, and despite the 2nd wave of gentrification , which began in the 1990s, with glass and steel with its modernist functionality, should be viewed as a prefabricated illusion. In other words, it's doesn't work, in comparison to the PoMo 1st wave. So, I'll take post-counter culture, hedonic kitsch anyday over the current corporatism arrays, which Michele's Fall 2026 rejects. Lace, with its sexual allure and Michele's Interferenze (" interference " ) merge, under the epicurean of a tryst. Seductive, mythical and powerful flows, with its layered styles, Michele is drawing more excess to his quirkiness, rather than belated sensenabitie...
