At the end of the high fashion week, the Valentino fashion show signed by Alessandro Michele, leaves the pleasure of wonder in the eyes. But the risk remains that of building an overly rich stage, where each dress is a fascinating but hyperbolic story. The artisanal virtuosity is indisputable, but it is almost swallowed up by an aesthetic that knows no subtraction. Many looks strike for their imaginative power, while others surprise only for an excess of decoration, the most interesting remain those where the artisanal virtuosity of the maison emerges in all its poetry. Declaredly anti-minimalist, Michele dialogues in his own way with the legacy of the recently deceased designer Valentino Garavani, rewriting an aesthetic that fascinates more as a conceptual exercise than as a vision of timeless beauty.