Models emerged from toilet stalls and celebrities posed by sinks after Valentino’s Alessandro Michele transformed his Paris Fashion Week venue into an atmospheric tiled restroom.

Valentino paraded high fashion inside public toilets in one of the season’s most unexpected backdrops, especially for a house as classical as Valentino. The set was a meticulous recreation, down to the tiling, soap dispensers, mirrors and endless rows of stalls, all bathed in an unsettling, almost seedy red light.

The creative director held the house’s Fall show inside a dystopian, David Lynchian reconstruction of a public bathroom. The space was awash in a red light, and the walls were flanked by basic sinks and mirrors as well as doors to toilet stalls.