Italian fashion designer Alessandro Michele has been announced as the new Creative Director of Valentino, succeeding Pierpaolo Piccioli.

Michele, the former Creative Director of Gucci, is set to release his debut spring collection with the Italian fashion house in autumn 2024, and commented 'I feel the immense joy and the huge responsibility to join a Maison de Couture that has the word "beauty" carved on a collective story, made of distinctive elegance, refinement and extreme grace'.