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.

Valentino paraded high fashion inside public toilets in one of the season’s most unexpected backdrops, especially for a house as classical as Valentino. The set was a meticulous recreation, down to the tiling, soap dispensers, mirrors and endless rows of stalls, all bathed in an unsettling, almost seedy red light.

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A show that explored the boundaries between public and private, intimacy and exposure, and the ever-blurred lines of identity in contemporary fashion. Models emerged from toilet cubicles, some stopping to inspect their faces in the mirrors,