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VALENTINO
“There is the Pope and there is Valentino. In this city, I don’t know who else is as famous.”
Valter Veltroni,The New Yorker
• Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani
• 11 May 1932, Lombardy • Italian and French
Nationality
• On 31 July 1960 Valentino met Giancarlo Giammetti and a friendship as well as a long-lasting partnership started.
• together for 12 years
• engaged with Italian actress Marilu Tolo,
• School of Fine Arts in Paris
• Assistant to Jacques Fath (a French fashion designer) and Balenciaga (Spanish designer)
• He joined Guy Laroche for 2 years
“Valentino Red”
• First show was in 1962 in Florence, Italy
• In 1966 he moved his fashions from Florence to Rome
• an all-withe collection- “collezione Bianca” the first clothes and accessories to have the magic “V” label
• the Neiman Marcus Award in 1967 (the equivalent of an Oscar in the field of fashion)
• Costumers and personal friends: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Margaret, Audrey Hepburn
• In 1969: boutique line of clothes and opens the first Valentino shop in Milan
• 1970 opening of Valenino boutiques in Rome and New York
• 1976 opens a boutique in Tokyo
• 1975 first fashion show of his Ready-to-wear collectoin
• 1989 first show of the Haute Couture collection
• September 4th, 2007 announced retirement
• adores dogs; line of clothing Oliver
• Healthy life: no drugs, alcohol, cigarettes
• In 2006 he did a role as himself in the movie The Devil Wears Prada
• Valentino: The Last Emperor (a documentary about him)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TcjeDq2e_M
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