PARIS (AP) — Valentino’s first couture show since house founder Valentino Garavani’s funeral in Rome opened under a somber shadow — then snapped it off with a jolt of pure theater. When the show began, the blinds lifted; the classical music soundtrack cut by the sharp punctuation of barking dogs. Inside the hubs, models appeared like mannequins behind glass — private viewing holes turned into a couture peep show. The atmosphere said “event.”The collection said “reset”: a designer calibrating his volume, testing how far he can bend Valentino’s couture codes without breaking them. For Suzy Menkes, the emotion around this Valentino couture show wasn’t abstract — it was immediate.