Firefly-shaped jewels flickered on the Valentino’s SS26 runaway last season, against royal blues and dense floral prints in Alessandro Michele’s collection, aptly named Fireflies, an attempt in Michele’s own words in the show notes, to “reawaken the gaze” and “nourish imagination with political force”.
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Couture at TIFF 2025: Alice Wincour’s Intimate Portrait of Fashion’s Hidden Seams
In a year where fashion’s collapse and reinvention are unfolding in real time, Alice Wincour’s Couture premiered at TIFF this past week like an unpinned hem: loose, fraying, yet undeniably alive.

