Maison 13 of 100 · Fashion & Couture
Valentino
The reading
Roman couture with a ready-to-wear engine. Alessandro Michele’s arrival reframed the house toward decoration and archive. Rockstud remains the accessible object; couture remains the reason the object is allowed to exist.
The house
- Origin
- Italy
- Founded
- 1960
- Atelier
- Fashion & Couture
- Ownership
- Mayhoola; Kering has held 30% since 2023 as of 2026-09-23
- Signature
- Rockstud / VLogo
- Register note
- Couture red as a trademark This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
How the register places it
Counted inside its own room it stands 13th of the twenty-five houses this register files under Fashion & Couture. Mayhoola holds no other house in this register. Against the whole register by founding year it comes 64th of a hundred. It is one of nineteen maisons filed here from Italy, the second-largest national group in the register. Its immediate neighbours in the register are No. 12 Balenciaga and No. 14 Givenchy. Five countries are represented in Fashion & Couture here, and this house files to Italy. Founding years under Fashion & Couture run 1837–2013; the median is 1951, and this house follows it by nine years.