Set within an uncanny red bathroom—a liminal stage between privacy and exposure—Alessandro Michele’s Fall 2025 campaign for Valentino explores the intersections of identity, intimacy, and appearance. ​
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In a series of fragmented moments, bodies and garments become a living script, revealing the political and poetic strength of fashion as a second skin. Not a private shelter, but a shared scene: a theatre of desire, possibility, and endless motion.​

With Le Méta Théâtre des Intimités, he suggests intimacy isn’t the absence of performance but a performance in itself – a layered, never-ending play where selfhood is constantly dressed, redressed, and revealed again.

The campaign also draws power from its eclectic cast, chosen to embody the multiplicity of intimacy. American indie musician Clairo, who has redefined pop with confessional songwriting, stands alongside radical performance artist Kembra Pfahler, known for blurring the lines between beauty and the grotesque.