I meet Alessandro Michele on Saturday in Paris, the day before his catwalk debut for Valentino. It’s the most anticipated show in fashion for a very long time. He comes across as almost blithely relaxed.
Apparently that can’t be said of everyone. “I spoke to Harry this morning about him coming here,” says Valentino’s new creative director, the man who made his name at another Italian brand, Gucci, where he pulled off the biggest luxury fashion transformation of the 21st century. “Harry told me, ‘I’m so nervous, I’m so nervous.
’ He’s more nervous than me!” That I am talking to not only arguably the most talented designer of his generation but inarguably the best connected means I know to which Harry he is referring. The.