Dear Shaded viewers,
From November 2024, Maison Valentino is welcomed into the prestigious concept store Dover Street Market. The news follows the success of Valentino’s Avant Les Débuts Spring 2025 collection, the first by new Creative Director Alessandro Michelle. Pop-up stores at the Dover Street Market locations around the world, including London, Ginza, New York, Singapore, Los Angeles, and Paris, will debut the collection to mark the beginning of this collaboration.
On November 13th, the Elephant Space at Dover Street Market Ginza and Beijing will be unveiled with a special Maison Valentino installation, designed with key looks from the celebrated Spring 2025 collection. Successively, permanent Maison Valentino spaces will be opened in Dover Street Market: in London on November 19th, Beijing in January 2025, and Ginza and New York in February 2025.
The collaboration between the Roman couture Maison and the concept store by Rei Kawakubo and Adrian Joffe will bring Maison Valentino further into the contemporary landscape. It will open the possibilities for Alessandro Michelle’s design vision to new clients and buyers, showcasing the excellence of his creativity, beauty, and craftsmanship of the Maison around the world.
“Journeys, moments, and explorations are the best parts of all of this,” states Adrian Joffe, CEO of Dover Street Market. The new adventure with Alessandro and Valentino reinstates that the unexpected meetings between different hearts and minds are exactly the purpose of Dover Street Market. The space is there for creators, individuals with the strongest voices and personal visions, to learn and grow from each other – and Maison Valentino now becomes part of this symbiotic community.
Later,
Eliya
