Assessing Alessandro Michele’s couture debut for Valentino. Also, Armani Privé and Chanel keep things moving and Gaurav Gupta surprises.

Just a few days before Alessandro Michele’s inaugural Valentino couture show, the designer welcomed Vogue into his Paris atelier.

PARIS (AP) — Alessandro Michele’s Valentino couture debut was the most anticipated ticket of Paris Couture Week, and the designer didn't disappoint with a lavish spectacle at the Palais Brongniart, a fittingly historic backdrop for his past-meets-present storytelling.

For his first haute couture collection for Valentino, Alessandro Michele dropped a stack of paper the size of a dissertation on each seat. Held together by a metal paper fastener were pages and pages of stream-of-consciousness lists. A random sampling: the description for look 37 included the sequence “petticoat, tundra, eschatology.”

Italy coach Gonzalo Quesada has named star player Ange Capuozzo on the wing rather than at fullback for his team's Six Nations opener in Scotland on Saturday. Tommaso Allan, who took a break from the national team last year for personal reasons and frequently plays at flyhalf,

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Scotland vs Italy is due to kick off at 2.15pm GMT on Saturday 1 February at Murrayfield in Edinburgh. Viewers in the United Kingdom can watch the match live on BBC One, with coverage on the channel from 1.15pm GMT. A live stream will be available via the BBC iPlayer.

The CT in the Italian national rugby team, Gonzalo Quesada, has announced the line-up of the Italian team that will face the Scotland at the Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on Saturday 1 February at 14.

Once the show got underway, a kind of digital ticker tape ran across the backdrop streaming even more words and proper names. Knowing that Michele is mad for Walter Benjamin, author of Arcades Project,

Gonzalo Quesada, Head Coach of the Italian Men's National Team, has announced the Italy team to face Scotland at the Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on Saturday 1st February, in the opening round of the 2025 Guinness Men's Six Nations.