Models emerged from toilet stalls and celebrities posed by sinks after Valentino’s Alessandro Michele transformed his Paris Fashion Week venue into an atmospheric tiled restroom.

Today at Paris Fashion Week, Alessandro Michele set his Valentino fall/winter 2025 show on a Lynchian red-lit set that was part locker room, part club bathroom (complete with flashing lights). It served as quite the photo-op backdrop for VIP guests,

For Michele, the public toilet was more than a backdrop — it was a space where boundaries dissolve, a setting charged with meaning. He described it as a “counter-place” that blurs distinctions between public and private, intimacy and exposure, transforming the mundane into something profoundly symbolic.