The worlds of trend and leisure have by no means been extra entwined, and that symbiosis has produced a slew of essential celebrity-designer friendships: Timothée Chalamet and Haider Ackermann. Luca Guadagnino and Jonathan Anderson. However few are as seen because the alliance of Harry Types and Alessandro Michele. Two respective titans of trade whose careers apexed during the last decade, the English pop star and the Italian designer have been buddies for practically as lengthy.
After his boy band One Path introduced their indefinite hiatus in 2016, Types spent a lot of the following few years launching his solo profession whereas carrying Michele’s Gucci, the place the designer served as artistic director from 2015 till 2022. Earlier than Michele left the model that 12 months, he and Types even collaborated on a Gucci capsule assortment that includes the kinds of dandyish suiting and psychedelic-lite prints that the musician had turn out to be synonymous with whereas selling his third studio EP, Harry’s Home.
Unsurprisingly, Types and Michele’s friendship survived the designer’s current transfer to Valentino, for whom he debuted his first assortment in Paris this weekend. Types sat entrance row, carrying a pumpkin-orange crewneck sweater embroidered with a small Valentino “V” brand, its hems accented with the frilly collar and cuffs of a ruffled blue gown shirt peeking out beneath. The remainder of Types’s ensemble—darkish trousers, espresso-brown leather-based loafers, orange-tinted aviator sun shades—was actually extra subdued than his out-there Gucci appears of yore. The outfit was extra in keeping with the musician’s informal private fashion, which usually oscillates between easy designer sweaters and slacks and cheeky athleticwear as of late.
On the present, Types posed for photographs alongside fellow actors Colman Domingo and Salma Hayek (the latter of whom is married to François-Henri Pinault, the CEO of Gucci’s father or mother firm/Valentino shareholder Kering), in addition to mannequin/former French first girl Carla Bruni and Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino.
