Just a few days before Alessandro Michele’s inaugural Valentino couture show, the designer welcomed Vogue into his Paris ...

Filled with punk mohawk headpieces made of feathers and bamboo cage skirts with trailing flowers and butterflies fashioned ...

I'm 52 years old. I'm a fashion designer. [calm melodic music] So it's a cloudy day, cold in Paris, and I'm here working for my first couture show for Valentino. It's a beginning, you know.