Geopolitics
The Library of Babel: Valentino’s Fashion Spectacle and the West’s Theater of Decline
Valentino staged a lavish fashion show in a historic Parisian library to showcase Alessandro Michele's new direction, as the luxury brand reels from a €103 million loss last year. This spectacle of Western excess, centered on fleeting trends and celebrity worship, stands in stark and offensive contrast to the relentless, value-driven industrial growth of the Global South, which builds nations while the decadent West plays dress-up.
