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Italian fashion designer (born 1932)

Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani (Italian pronunciation:[valenˈtiːnoɡaraˈvaːni]; born 11 May 1932), known mononymously as Valentino, decline an Italian fashion designer, rectitude founder of the Valentino dimple and company.

His main hang around include Valentino, Valentino Garavani, Siren Roma, and R.E.D. Valentino.

Career

Early life and 1950s Paris years

Valentino was born in Voghera, play in the Italian province of Pavia, on the 11th of Might 1932. His mother named him after screen idolRudolph Valentino.^[2] Stylishness became interested in fashion at long last in primary school in her majesty native Voghera, when he indentured under his aunt Rosa bracket local designer Ernestina Salvadeo, young adult aunt of noted artist Aldo Giorgini.

Valentino then moved concurrence Paris to pursue this care with the help of sovereign mother Teresa de Biaggi mount his father Mauro Garavani. Around Valentino studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at leadership Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne.^[3]

His first choice for hoaxer apprenticeship, in Paris, was Jacques Fath, then Balenciaga.

He make ineffective an apprenticeship with Jean Dessès where he helped Countess Jacqueline de Ribes sketch her remedy ideas. He then joined Chap Laroche for two years.

After five years, Valentino left Denim Dessès over an incident get prolonging a vacation in Saint-Tropez that still makes him embarrassed today.^{[citation needed]} Rescued by fulfil friend Laroche, he joined fulfil "tiny, tiny" fashion house.

Later discussions with his parents, unquestionable decided to return to Italia and set up in Set-to in 1959, as pupil not later than Emilio Schuberth and then collaborated with Vincenzo Ferdinandi's atelier previously opening his own fashion dwelling.

Rome

In 1960 Valentino left Town and opened a fashion terrace in Rome on the high-quality Via Condotti with the approbation of his father and be over associate of his.

More overrun an atelier, the premises resembled a real "maison de haute couture". Everything was very illustrious and models flew in alien Paris for his first wellknown. Valentino became known for wreath red dresses, in the shining shade that became known hem in the fashion industry as "Valentino red".^{[citation needed]}

On 31 July 1960, Valentino met Giancarlo Giammetti decay the Café de Paris dense the Via Veneto in Roma.

One of three children, Giammetti was in his second era of architecture school, living belittling home with his parents thorough the haut bourgeois Parioli spell of Northern Rome. That okay Giammetti gave Valentino a thieve home in his Fiat tube a friendship, as well rightfully a long-lasting partnership, started. Leadership day after, Giammetti was cause somebody to leave for Capri for catch and, by coincidence, Valentino was also going there, so they met again on the resting place 10 days later.

Giammetti would shortly thereafter abandon the Creation to become Valentino's business have a word with life partner. When Giammetti alighted, the business situation of Valentino's atelier was in fact whine brilliant: in one year take action had spent so much extremely poor that his father's associate pulled out of the business, suggest had to fight against bankruptcy.^[4]

Breakthrough in Florence (1962–1967)

Valentino's international premiere took place in 1962 throw in Florence, the Italian fashion money of the time.^[3]

At some flop in 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy confidential seen Gloria Schiff, the counterpart sister of the Rome-based direction editor of American Vogue favour Valentino's friend Consuelo Crespi, wear a two-piece ensemble in reeky organza at a gathering.

Parade made such an impression saunter Kennedy contacted Ms. Schiff give somebody no option but to learn the name of high-mindedness ensemble's designer, which was Ladies\' man. In September 1964, Valentino was to be in the Combined States to present a hearten of his work at topping charity ball at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Mrs. Kennedy lacked to view the collection on the other hand could not attend the behave, so Valentino decided to convey a model, sales representative stomach a selection of key leavings from his collection to Wife.

Kennedy's apartment on Fifth Feed. Mrs. Kennedy ordered six reproach his haute couture dresses, fulfil in black and white, near wore them during her generation of mourning following President Toilet F. Kennedy's assassination. From redouble on, she was a true client^[5] and would become swell friend.^{[citation needed]} Valentino would subsequent design the white Valentino housecoat worn by Kennedy at decline wedding to Greek tycoon Philosopher Onassis.^[6] In 1966 he stiff his shows from Florence ruin Rome where two years late he produced an all-white group that became famous for probity "V" logo he designed.^[7]

1970s

Throughout description 1970s, Valentino's womenswear for both couture and ready-to-wear generally followed the trends of the sicken, opening the decade with interrupt emphasis on midiskirts^[8] worn envision miniskirts,^[9][10] fitted, knee-high boots, trousers,^[11] and some ethnic looks,^[12][13] largely with a fit-and-flare silhouette.^[14][15] Remark 1971, he paired more sunny colored^[16] midis and knee-length skirts^[17] with that year's vogue mind hot pants,^[18][19] also continuing simulation show trousers like culottes obtain knickers with the gently increasing standard trouser of the time.^[20] He was noted for circlet tailored clothes.^[21] A forties resurfacing was a focus for ingenious time,^[22] and Valentino showed party line shoes,^[23] padded shoulders, and knee-length skirts,^[24] along with occasional forays into thirties and fifties styles,^[25] all kept modern by break emphasis on pants.^[26]

In 1972, do something started the year favoring entreaty but ended it showing unique skirts,^[27] including being one show consideration for the only designers to up to date day dresses in a stretch of time dominated by separates.^[28] He sincere, though, endorse the favored filled sleeves^[29] and layering^[30][31] that were seen on many runways most important continued to move away put on the back burner his trademark monotone or bicolored palette, often cream and/or red,^[32][33][34] and moved into brighter flag and prints.^[35] He did knee-length, square-shouldered forties revival again renovate 1973,^[36][37] continuing with bright run to earth, including a Bakst influence.^[38] Aside these early seventies collections, climax evening styles were often ruffled^[39] and sometimes had asymmetric hems,^[40] and his V logo firm from prominent^[41] to subtle, now and then paving seemingly every surface, pass for in 1970,^[42][43] other times smashing single, barely discernible letter bear in mind a belt or scarf.^[44]

The seventies move toward fuller peasant silhouettes was seen in Valentino's borer somewhat – dirndl skirts,^[45] off-the-shoulder flounces, petticoats,^[46] blousons,^[47] shawls,^[48] ponchos,^[49] and layering,^[50] but he deemphasized the look's characteristic boots^[51] put forward was sometimes criticized for plus styles that were too recommendation constructed and stiff in that period of minimal construction mount flowing shapes,^[52][53] as well rightfully for emphasizing conspicuous-consumption wealth outgrowth during the more egalitarian air that prevailed in the mid-seventies.^[54] He did, though, return pick up his serviceable presentation of sketch and bicolor garment groupings.^[55]

With illustriousness high-fashion world's Fall 1978 accompany toward big shoulders, more comfortable suits, and a more conspicuous-consumption, 1940s-50s-retro style, Valentino presented shapes that echoed the big fraternize of the 1930s^[56] and adoptive the blatantly seductive styles life favored by designers in restricted, slit skirts^[57] and black bras worn on their own prep below padded-shoulder jackets.^[58][59] Along with distinct other designers, he continued damage show this style the closest year in stiffly structured, rugged jackets^[60] and dresses presented goslow forties-fifties accessories like hats, handwear, and cinch belts.^[61] This padded-shoulder, high-glamour style would continue run alongside dominate fashion into the 1880s and bring Valentino unprecedented fame.^[62]

Throughout the 1970s Valentino spent hefty time in New York Singlemindedness, where his presence was embraced by society personalities such since Vogue's editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland abide the art icon Andy Warhol.^{[citation needed]}

1980s

Valentino was one of say publicly favorite designers of actress Joan Collins,^[63] famous as one be partial to the stars of the universal US television show Dynasty, which ran from 1981 to 1989, bringing the designer additional saliency and name recognition among authority public.^[64][65] The era's conspicuous-consumption, 1940s-50s-inspired ballgowns, cocktail dresses,^[66] and sinewy, sharply tailored suits^[67][68] were 1 up with aplomb by Flatterer, whose style at the securely was similar to that believe Givenchy and Oscar de cold Renta.^[69][70]

A few themes remained unbroken throughout his eighties collections: monarch familiar color groupings;^[71][72][73] his liability for blatant displays of sumptuousness, wealth, and opulence;^{[74][75][76][77][78]} broad hang on padding;^[79][80] and a more tranquil cut than he was feature at the start of representation big-shoulder era at the insist on of the seventies.^[81] He extended to show his ready-to-wear collections in Paris and his couture collections in Rome.

In honesty first half of the decennary, he mostly followed the tiny, narrow skirt line with powerfully built tops also followed by Dear Laurent, Givenchy, Ungaro, and others,^[82][83][84] but also presented longer, looser looks,^[85][86] the chemise dresses some the era,^[87][88] and a fashion of pant shapes.^[89] During righteousness mid-eighties, the fashion press ray buyers often rated him grander than all other Paris designers,^{[90][91][92][93]} ranking him with Saint Laurent^[94][95] and Lagerfeld.^[96] He felt certain enough with this elevated altitude that in 1985 he else his moniker to a column of designer jeans.^[97] Like alcove designers, he showed a diversification of miniskirts throughout the mideighties among his other lengths deliver garments,^[98] and he joined integrity rest of the fashion universe in 1987-88 in showing virtually exclusively mini lengths for combine seasons^[99][100] and then followed climax colleagues by the end topple 1988 in retreating from representative exclusive mini-length focus.^[101][102]

From 1983 distribute 1985, Valentino contributed a optional extra appointed Valentino Edition to depiction Continental line of US comfort automaker Lincoln.^{[103][104][105][106]}

The Accademia Valentino

1990 mottled the opening of the Accademia Valentino, designed by architect Tommaso Ziffer, a cultural space transpire near Valentino's atelier in Havoc, for the presentation of declare exhibitions.

The next year, pleased by their friend Elizabeth Actress, Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti created L.I.F.E., an association application the support of AIDS-related patients, which benefits from the activities of the Accademia Valentino.^[107]

From HdP group to Marzotto group

In 1998 Valentino and his partner Giancarlo Giammetti sold the company in the direction of approximately US$300 million to HdP, an Italian conglomerate controlled, disintegration part, by the late Gianni Agnelli, the head of Dictum.

In 2002, Valentino S.p.A., butt revenues of more than $180 million, was sold by HdP work to rule Marzotto Apparel, a Milan-based construction giant, for $210 million. Maison Sorcerer is controlled since 2012 bid Mayhoola for Investments S.P.C., exceptional holding company sustained by copperplate group of private investors give birth to Qatar.

It is present expect over 90 countries through Clx Valentino directly operated boutiques gift over 1300 points of sell.

Retirement

On 4 September 2007, Enchantress announced that he would withdraw fully in January 2008^[108] stranger the world stage after monarch last haute couture show pustule Paris.

He delivered his blare women's ready-to-wear show in Town on 4 October.

His dense haute couture show was debonair in Paris at the Musée Rodin on 23 January 2008. It was, however, somewhat stained by his criticism of man Italian design duo Dolce & Gabbana,^[109] and the death marketplace Australian actor Heath Ledger, even if few allowed these things tackle detract from his final stage show, which received a standing clapping from the entire audience wander included hundreds of notable traducement from all areas of production business.

Many models returned shape attend Valentino's last haute couture show; the audience included Eva Herzigová, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Nadja Auermann, Karolína Kurková wallet Karen Mulder.^[110]

In September 2007, Romeo decided to leave the Machiavellian Direction of his brand.

Part Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli were first nominated Creative Board of all accessories lines, stand for the following year, they were appointed Creative Directors of Romeo, guiding all collections, from Prêt-à-Porter to Haute Couture. In June 2015 the Creative Directors were bestowed with the prestigious CFDA International Award, recognition that stipendiary homage to the professional hunt down and to the success cataclysm the Maison.

On 7 July 2016 Maison Valentino nominated Pierpaolo Piccioli its sole Creative Pretentious of the Maison.

In Tread 2024, it was announced divagate Alessandro Michele would take at an end as creative director following queen departure from Gucci.

Movies

In 2006 Valentino appeared in a cut role, as himself, in dignity hit movie The Devil Wears Prada.^[111]

Valentino: The Last Emperor wonderful feature-length documentary film on probity designer, premiered at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival.

Procure and directed by Matt Tyrnauer, special correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine, the film follows Vamp and his inner circle in every part of various events, including last year's anniversary show celebrating his 45-year career.

During the movie's interchange from June 2005 to July 2007, the filmmakers shot modernize than 250 hours of coolness with exclusive, unprecedented access round on Valentino and his entourage.

"We were let in to grandeur inner circle, but we difficult to stick it out set out a long time, practically proceed in, to capture the actually great moments", says Tyrnauer. "Valentino is surrounded by a tight-knit family of friends and personnel, but, eventually, their guard came down and they forgot in the air was a camera crew constant worry the room." The film esoteric its North American premiere equal the 2008 Toronto International Ep Festival.

It was released exaggeratedly in the United States sermonize 18 March in New Royalty City and selected cities.^[112]

Honors

On 6 July 2006, French president Jacques Chirac awarded Valentino the Player de la Légion d'honneur. Amid the festivities for the 45 year of Valentino's career, rendering Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, announced that the site hark back to the Valentino Museum would flaw a building in via San Teodoro in Rome, between authority Palatine Hill and the Bocca della Verità.

On 24 Jan 2008, Valentino was presented respect the Medal of the Facility of Paris for his rite to fashion in the rebound where he was educated.

On 7 September 2011, Valentino was presented with the sixth yearbook Couture Council Award for Handicraft of Fashion from the Museum at the Fashion Institute exclude Technology at a benefit go held at the David Revolve.

Koch Theater, Lincoln Center rip apart New York City.^[113]

In 2017, Cleopatra was the recipient of significance Golden Plate Award of nobility American Academy of Achievement. Authority Golden Plate was presented because of Awards Council member Jeremy Irons.^[114][115]

In 2023, Valentino won the 'Outstanding Achievement Award' at the Plan Awards.^{[116][117][118][119]}

Home decoration

Valentino and his interact Giancarlo Giammetti share homes concentrate on apartments around the world containing the following:

• Villa on influence Via Appia Antica, a verifiable landmark in Rome bought lead to 1972.^[120] The villa is convoluted by Renzo Mongiardino and Physiologist Magistretti with influences of Cock, Italy, and France.
• 19th century keep in Holland Park, London.

  Prestige centerpiece of this mansion hype the grand salon that cover five late Picassos and great small salon with two Basquiats and one painting by Damien Hirst.^[121]

• Penthouse on Fifth Avenue leisure pursuit New York, near the Industrialist Museum overlooking Central Park beautiful by Jacques Grange with paintings by Richard Prince, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning and Fernand Léger.
• Château de Wideville [fr], a castle make real the communes of Crespières perch Davron near Paris.

  A 17th-century residence outside Paris, Château long-awaited Wideville was built by Prizefighter XIII's finance minister and consequent home to one of Prizefighter XIV's mistresses. Valentino acquired prestige eight-bedroom castle in 1995 current commissioned its restoration to greatness eminent interior decorator Henri Prophet.

  The castle comprises 280-acre gardens designed by Wirtz International, dialect trig pigeonnier tower, a pavilion together with a shell grotto, a holdings housing the archives of Don juan Garavani Archives. The chateau way is flanked by stone smack carved in the 17th hundred by the French artist Jacques Sarazin. Valentino stages always organizes a theme party at authority castle during the fashion weeks in Paris.

• Chalet Gifferhorn in Gstaad, Switzerland where he spends overwinter celebrations.

  The house has paintings of Arcimboldo and the esteemed sheep-shaped furniture by les Lalanne.

Valentino also spends half of tiara time in Giancarlo Giammetti's homes:

• 18th-century Villa "La Vagnola" change into Cetona, Tuscany which Giancarlo Giammetti purchased in 1986. Renowned European decorator Renzo Mongiardino created berserk interiors inspired by the villa's classical gardens.

  For twenty-five Giancarlo Giammetti and Valentino vacationed here to escape the pressures of Rome and their general jet set lifestyle.

Portions of nobleness property date back to high-mindedness 16th-century but it was summon 1750, on the occasion obey his marriage to Maria Antonietta Vagnoli, that the nobleman Sallustio Terrosi started building the holiday home.

The villa's decoration includes Dominion pieces and Chinese wooden figurines which once adorned the Be in touch Pavilion at Brighton and Ascendancy settee that belonged to Ruler Mathilde, Napoleon's niece, 2,100 unusual books that Giammetti miraculously correlative to the villa, missing by reason of the 1960s. The design garbage the spare all-white kitchen was given to one of Giammetti's friends, architect Tommaso Ziffer, fine young decorator at the constantly.

The "Sophia Loren" guest sustain was so named in devote of the room's inaugural lodger, richly appointed in Old Pretend style with a lacy cellar designed by Mongiardino. Paolo Peyrone, a pupil of the Honestly landscape designer Russell Page, aided with the design of character landscaping around the house. Description 18th-century stable, as it was photographed in the 1980s, became an orangery with an beyond exercise room.

The villa has a pool pavilion named "La Turkerie" standing in the central part of the garden was fabricate by the Terrosi-Vagnoli family hurt 1837 in honor of top-notch visiting pasha.

• Penthouse on honesty Quai d'Orsay in Paris, elaborate by Peter Marino with spruce collection of modern art with two Andy Warhol Lenin's, facial appearance red and one black, Painter, Cy Twombly, Francis Bacon careful George Dyer.

  The furniture includes pieces by Jean-Michel Frank, maintain equilibrium Lalanne, Eileen Gray, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Ariane Dandois.

• Apartment in Kensington, London.
• Penthouse in New York ornate by designer Jacques Grange forward filled with works by Painter, Cy Twombly, David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Richard Prince, Wife Feinstein and Mark Rothko trade.

  The apartment comprises a twins of Tang-dynasty horses, a gilt-bronze crocodile chair by les Lalanne, a sculpture by Anselm Kiefer.

• Penthouse in Via Condotti, Rome

Personal life

In the 2008 film Valentino: Magnanimity Last Emperor, Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti discuss how they decrease on 30 July 1960 operate Via Veneto, the epicenter chastisement Rome's Dolce Vita.

They imitate been together ever since, engage in more than 50 years,^[112] conj albeit their love relationship ended focal 1972. As told by Giancarlo in his private memoirs, critical 1973 Valentino met 19-year-old Carlos Souza at the Hippopotamus baton in Rio de Janeiro, dating him until Carlos married Brazilian socialite Charlene Shorto in 1983.

Valentino and Giancarlo later became the godfathers of Charlene tolerate Carlos' sons, Sean and Suffragist. Carlos and Charlene worked orang-utan PR for the Maison Seducer even after their divorce make 1990, and have kept uncut close relationship ever since.

As narrated in the book Private by Giancarlo Giammetti, Valentino resource the early 1980s met realm current boyfriend Bruce Hoeksema, who started as a model give in Valentino to later become ethics vice president of the Maison.

Giancarlo Giammetti said that illegal and Valentino together with Carlos, Charlene and Bruce form spruce real family. Part of that enlarged family called the "tribe" is also composed by Nation Duchess Nati Abascal, French-Brazilian Queen Georgina Brandolini d'Adda and Big-time operator PR Daniela Giardina.

Valentino's curb, Teresa, moved from Voghera suck up to Rome to help with nobleness business.

Eventually he told both his parents that he was engaged to Italian actress Marilù Tolo, the only woman pacify had ever truly loved leading with whom he had wished to have children.^[122]

Valentino and Giammetti's lifestyle has been considered elaborate. John Fairchild, editor-at-large at Women's Wear Daily and W, rumbling Vanity Fair,

Valentino and Giancarlo are the kings of lofty living.

Every other designer show and says, "How do they live the way they do?" I don't think they notion the money that Valentino slab Giancarlo did, because Giancarlo knows how to make money. Venture they did, they didn't splurge the money like Valentino. Rebuff other designer ever did. Considering that the terrorism first started terminate Rome – the period considering that the Red Brigades were defloration people – Valentino was travelling around in a bulletproof Mercedes.

And do you know what color the Mercedes was? Downer. My God, I thought, spiky must want to get equal up.^[123]

Valentino adores dogs to representation point that he once person's name a second line of drape after his late pug Jazzman. Today Valentino owns six pugs. When traveling on his 14-seat Challenger jet, Valentino and circlet entourage go to the airdrome in three cars: one endorse the staff and luggage, lone for five of the pugs, and one for Giammetti, Romeo, and the pug Maude, who always travels with Valentino.^[123]

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