Alessandro Michele stages Valentino’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection at Paris’s Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève as an encounter between clothing and everything that remains unknown. Titled Antibiblioteca, the show takes its starting point from the idea of the antilibrary, a collection of unread books whose value lies precisely in what they might still contain.

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