MILAN — Alessandro Michele does not want speed to be part of his vocabulary.

Valentino ‘s creative director turned once again to his longtime collaborator Glen Luchford to photograph the brand’s fall 2025 campaign, unveiled exclusively with WWD, and penned a letter to say that “nowadays fashion is more and more an expression of a hypertrophic and accelerated world, stubbornly pursuing the promise of novelty: new forms, new traces, new stories.”

Michele is aiming to go in a different direction, as he did with his pre-fall campaign for Valentino urging a return to a more long-lasting gaze.

“In such a whirlwind, I chose to dwell in a different gesture: not running, but lingering,” Michele continued in his letter. “Not opening a new chapter, rather delving into a theme already unfol

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