“Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colour. Beauty is like a religion.” Those words belong to Valentino creative director Alessandro Michele , who had them printed to open his newest creation, Specula Mundi, a pink-coated book of photographs by Mark Bothwick featuring Michele’s couture collection of the same name presented in Paris in January. The collection broke free from traditional runway rules to be reconfigured by Michele through the use of a Kaiserpanorama, a round wooden structure that gained prominence in the 19th and early-20th centuries as a precursor to filmed entertainment. It allowed a group of people to peer through windows to view slides or photographs at the same time. Specula Mundi translates to mirror of the world, and the reflection Valentino has forever displayed centered on beauty.…