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This is The Run Through. I'm Nicole Phelps. Today on the show, I'm joined by Alessandro Michaelae, the creative director of Valentino. Alessandro dialed in remotely from the Valentino

Palazzo in Rome. We spoke about theater, philosophy, the beauty of doing nothing, and of course, his fashion and his upcoming couture show at Valentino.

Here's my conversation with Alessandra McKayley. It was such a pleasure speaking with him.

Ciao, Alessandra. I'm so happy to see you, even if it is over Zoom.

And happy New Year to you.

Oh, thank you.

Happy New Year.

I mean, it's going to be the 2025.

So I'm pretty positive.

It's my number.

It's a great number. And we're exactly, we're taping this podcast exactly two weeks from your Ocout Couture debut for Valentino.

So please tell me, tell me what your mood is like.

How excited are you?

I'm always like excited and stressed and nervous and happy many things you know because it's it's something that

must be like this you know otherwise means that I'm not on the right way so but I'm

very excited and happy because it's, I'm feeling so different, you know, and yeah,

for the Pretta Porte, it's completely different, you know.

It's the process, everything.

So I'm, I'm curious too, you know.

It's like that I'm approaching at something that I don't know. I mean, that is a piece of this

trip. I need to really to touch it to see what will be in Paris, you know.

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