See all the celebrities in Valentino’s latest Cruise 2026 campaign
Creative director Alessandro Michele presents a dreamlike campaign, setting the scene with Chopin’s Nocturne in E Flat’s notes filling a quiet hotel. “There is a moment, just before the night comes, when conscience prepares to surrender. It is an in-between time, where the borders of sleep and wake become porous: things get soft, words lose weight, light stops judging,” reads the official notes.
Dakota Johnson, shot by Marili Andre, for the Valentino Cruise 2026 campaign (Image: Valentino)
In the different hotel rooms, friends of Valentino–Marisa Berenson, Dev Hynes, Anne Imhof, Tate McRae, Devon Teuscher,and the house’s new global brand ambassador, Dakota Johnson–are portrayed indulging in the rituals of their private lives. “The hotel becomes a metaphor for the contemporary condition: a place of proximity without contact, where parallel solitudes breathe within the same time and thoughts intertwine through thin walls,” Michele continues. “For a moment, what is most private transfigures into a shared experience.”
