Alessandro Michele
Lauren Sherman
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December 22, 2025
Fashion’s Villain of the Year Is…
The demanding, annoying, and increasingly necessary “client”—from the desperate poseur buying the Louis Vuitton money clip to the oil heiress dropping $500,000 on a custom couture look. Like entertainment, politics, and media, the fashion industry has been laid low by the depths of post-monoculture influencer economics.
Lauren Sherman
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October 6, 2025
We’ll Always Have Paris
News and notes on the final shows of the season: Pieter Mulier’s beautifully commercial Alaïa, Pierpaolo’s modern twist on couture, the Alessandro riddle, and Matthieu Blazy’s triumphant debut at Chanel.
We Need to Talk About Alessandro
The generationally talented designer’s Roman idyll with Valentino is still problematic, one year in, and now the house’s newly appointed C.E.O., Riccardo Bellini, needs to make it work. Plus, news and notes on his successor and the Fendi sitch.
Lauren Sherman
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July 7, 2025
My Funny Valentino
Amid tumult in Valentino’s executive ranks and uncertainty in the luxury market, new Kering C.E.O. Luca de Meo has several options before him: reshuffle the team, buy Valentino outright… or simply wait and see.
Lauren Sherman
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March 10, 2025
The Last Stage of Fashion’s Tour de France
As the shows continue in Paris, news and notes on the McQueen opportunity, Alessandro’s bathroom commentary, Hermès’s runway persona, and Demna’s sense of humor.
Lauren Sherman
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September 30, 2024
Alessandro’s Valentino Debut & The Jonathan Rumor Mill
The endless, anxiety-filled game of designer musical chairs took a back seat during Paris Fashion Week to a series of fashion-for-fashion’s sake shows at Rick Owens, Jonathan Anderson’s Loewe, Nadège Vanhée’s Hermès, Seán McGirr’s McQueen, and Alessandro Michele’s Valentino debut. And, yes, there was gossip, too.
Lauren Sherman
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May 16, 2024
Delphine to the Rescue
The surprise news that Michael Burke, the longtime Arnault lieutenant, was “stepping back” from his role as C.E.O. of LVMH’s fashion division has thrown Delphine Arnault into the catbird seat. Is her interim appointment a major step forward in the interminable sibling rivalry to one day replace her father?
Lauren Sherman
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April 1, 2024
The Alessandro Resurrection
A post-Valentino-appointment consideration of fashion’s most famous sabbatical, the designer’s future in Rome, and various other burning counterfactuals and hypotheticals.
Lauren Sherman
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February 5, 2024
Demna, Alessandro & Other Fashion Week Infatuations
News and notes on all the gossip and musings and rumor-mongering animating the prelude to New York Fashion Week.
