Valentino unveils nine new interpretations of its super popular DeVain bag

Since his Gucci era, Alessandro Michele has nurtured collaborations with young talent, especially when it comes to artists. He has continued in the same direction as the creative director of Valentino, and one of his latest projects is now being revealed. Nine artists were invited to reinterpret the Valentino Garavani DeVain bag through various digital media, transforming it into an extension of their own recognizable worlds. The DeVain bag was first introduced in the Pre Fall 2025 collection and is now available in twenty seven variations.

The first chapter of the Valentino Garavani DeVain Digital Creative Project presents five of the nine collaborators Thomas Albdorf, Enter The Void, Paul Octavious, Albert Planella and Tina Tona while the remaining artists and their digital works will be unveiled throughout December to give the project an added touch of mystery.

In each of the nine stories, the DeVain bag is the protagonist and the starting point for exploring digital artistic expression. In the first chapter, DeVain receives five different yet complementary interpretations. Thomas Albdorf presents the bag through a series of studio based video studies where reflections, symmetries and textures turn into sculptural, almost architectural forms. Enter The Void leads it into a surreal world a desert hotel submerged in water, a space where bags and fish float and where the boundaries of time and place disappear. Paul Octavious draws inspiration from classical portraiture and places DeVain in animated digital scenes that evoke the aesthetics of the sixteenth century. Tina Tona combines multimedia collage and animation, showing the bag from a series of perspectives that move between rhythm and controlled chaos. Albert Planella brings together artificial intelligence and cinematic language to create a vision on the edge of dream and reality, where DeVain appears as a metamorphic, poetic object.

Thomas Albdorf

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Together, these works create a vivid picture of an object positioned somewhere between a fashion accessory and a work of art. The project expands on Valentino’s ongoing exploration of the dialogue between the human and the digital, reminding us that in a time when artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly present part of everyday life, technology can serve as a source of inspiration rather than a threat to creativity or a force that might replace the human touch.

The video and images by artists Enter The Void, Paul Octavious, and Albert Planella were generated using AI. All featured imagery by Enter The Void was used with the informed consent of the models portrayed and all talents involved.