"Alessandro Michele was searching for the light, he said, in his latest Valentino collection. That was both literal and metaphorical. For the literal, he partnered with an artistic duo, Nonotak - founded by visual artist Noemi Schipfer and light and sound artist Takami Nakamoto - to animate his Spring/Summer 2026 show space with their immersive kinetic artwork Sora, translating to sky from Japanese. With whirling overhead lights embedded in inky darkness, it was a piece brought to Michele's attention by his partner Giovanni Attili."
""The beginning of the show is like a storm of light," said Michele. "It could be a war, it could be lightning, it could be the beginning of something - or the end. It's a circular thing." The whole idea was to create a black box where you're confronted," said Nakamoto. "We wanted to create a really immersive but also confusing experience.""
Alessandro Michele sought an intense exploration of light for Valentino's Spring/Summer 2026 collection, both literal and metaphorical. He partnered with Nonotak—Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto—to install Sora, an immersive kinetic artwork whose name translates to 'sky.' The installation featured whirling overhead lights embedded in inky darkness and was re-engineered for a custom-built showspace at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris. The runway unfolded in half light, flickering and pulsing as models moved, creating a stormlike, circular atmosphere that suggested war, lightning, beginnings, or endings. The concept aimed to immerse and confuse the audience while centering light as the primary message.
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