With his spring collection for the house of Valentino, staged mere days after Valentino Garavani’s funeral in Rome, Alessandro Michele somehow managed to do both. The show unfolded not on a runway, but inside these brightly lit boxes, with live models instead of stereoscopic moving images. A recording of Garavani, describing how his vocation was born in the cinema, played at the start of the show. Gold lamé goddess gowns added a dash of ‘80s gloss, morphing film idols with Oscar statuettes. As awards season plays out against chaotic world events, Michele dared his audience to dream.