Valentino Unravels “Interferenze” Fall/Winter 2026–27 Campaign

Valentino makes friction look impossibly elegant inside Rome’s industrial past

There’s something magnetic, sitting between precision and instinct. That’s what it feels like inside Valentino’s Interferenze Fall/Winter 2026–27 campaign.

Under creative director Alessandro Michele, the Maison turns one of Rome’s strangest and most beautiful spaces into the perfect collision point: classical sculpture, monumental machinery, couture-level styling and bodies arranged almost like living artifacts.

Captured at Centrale Montemartini — Rome’s first public electricity plant, later transformed into a museum space for the Capitoline Museums — the campaign brings history and industrial modernity together in intimate dialogue.

Interferenze is built around things that should clash — but don’t

The campaign’s entire visual logic comes from contrast. Ancient marble figures stand beside turbines and steel machinery. Valentino’s Fall/Winter silhouettes enter that already impossible pairing and become part of the same conversation: softness against hardness, ornament against utility, memory against invention.

That tension is not accidental. Michele’s Interferenze concept has been framed around friction between apparently incompatible systems — the kind of visual collision that creates something new precisely because nobody tries to smooth the edges away.

Centrale Montemartini is more than a backdrop — it is the campaign’s argument

The location is central to why the images work. Built in the early 20th century on the left bank of the Tiber, Centrale Montemartini began life as Rome’s first public electricity plant before becoming a museum annex in 1997.

Its defining visual contradiction — ancient Greek and Roman sculpture displayed alongside hulking industrial machines — gives Michele exactly the kind of unstable beauty he likes to work with. Nothing cancels anything else out. Everything stays visible at once.

Glen Luchford photographs the collision while the film lets it breathe

The campaign was photographed by Glen Luchford, with the accompanying film directed by Ezra Petronio and Lana Petrusevy. Together, the stills and moving images lean into the location’s strange suspended quality: classical bodies, modern machinery and Valentino clothes existing inside the same frame without one being forced to dominate the others.

That makes Interferenze feel less like a seasonal campaign pasted onto a landmark and more like a real exchange between place, clothes and history. Precision meets instinct. Order meets interruption. Very Valentino. Very Michele.

Watch Valentino’s Interferenze Fall/Winter 2026–27 Campaign Film

Filmed at Rome’s Centrale Montemartini, the campaign brings Alessandro Michele’s Fall/Winter 2026–27 vision into dialogue with classical sculpture and the museum’s industrial machinery.

Sources: Valentino; Centrale Montemartini campaign materials.