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, ...

If one looked back through all of Valentino Garavani’s collections — he began ... Et voilà, it appeared. Each model came out in the semi-darkness, paused before the cameras, then walked ...