Valentino’s Alessandro Michele stages tribute to beauty and his mother in Rome

The designer’s autumn/winter show featured jewel tones, big shoulders and spray-on tight jeans Valentino Garavani wanted to make beautiful clothes for the women who could afford them. The perpetually tanned designer, whose vision of jet set glamour was matched only by his own yacht-and-pug lifestyle, died in January. So there was an obvious logic in taking the first proper catwalk show since his death off the fashion week schedule and back to Rome, where he lived, worked, and died. Milan and...

By Morwenna Ferrier in Rome