excerpt: Valentino. Fall/Winter 2026, 2027 - Milan (Paris Fashion Week)

 

"How do we define a glitch within the concept of timeline?  And the late Valentino Garavani, who passed away January 2026 at the age of 93, once professed that he "hated the 1980s fashion", including his own collections, claiming that he's aesthetical inspiration started in the 1940s and ended in the 1960s.  And he may, or may not have liked the 1990s, be it fashion's ebbs and flows, and throughout the 2000s, as the industry became more cologomerate orientated.   We have since seen fashion nestle into its current modernist template, without much room to experiment with, albeit some of the last of the independent designers still standing, offering a slight buffer between expectations of market share, and the creation of innovating looks.   

And Alessandro Michele would have to be that quintessential fashion designer, who was able to wedge his own definition of uniqueness within the corporatized fashion world, despite being asked to leave Gucci in 2025, he has since reinvigorated his eccentricity with Valentino..."

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Full review: chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/03/valentino-fallwinter-2026-2027-milan.html

(A.Glass 2026)

Resort 2027 review soon.