05/10/2025
Valentino SS26: Fireflies in the Dark 🪩
At Paris Fashion Week today, Alessandro Michele unveiled his latest vision for Valentino a poetic, otherworldly collection titled Fireflies. With a haunting voiceover by Pamela Anderson, the show became a meditation on fashion’s power to illuminate, to reveal, to heal.
“Disarm the eyes and reawaken the gaze,” Michele urged in his show notes, read aloud by Anderson. What followed was a procession of dreamlike silhouettes—ethereal, enigmatic, and charged with quiet rebellion. Embellishments shimmered like fireflies in twilight, each look a flicker of hope against the gloom.
This wasn’t just a collection. It was a manifesto. Fashion, Michele reminds us, can be a torch in uncertain times revealing not just beauty, but the possibility of new worlds.