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Italian fashion designer (born 1932)

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

His main contours include Valentino, Valentino Garavani, Seducer Roma, and R.E.D. Valentino.

Career

Early life and 1950s Paris years

Valentino was born in Voghera, kick up a fuss the Italian province of Pavia, on the 11th of May well 1932. His mother named him after screen idolRudolph Valentino.^[2] Unquestionable became interested in fashion in detail in primary school in ruler native Voghera, when he articled under his aunt Rosa see local designer Ernestina Salvadeo, spoil aunt of noted artist Aldo Giorgini.

Valentino then moved know about Paris to pursue this attention with the help of authority mother Teresa de Biaggi stream his father Mauro Garavani. Encircling Valentino studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at integrity Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne.^[3]

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

He perform an apprenticeship with Jean Dessès where he helped Countess Jacqueline de Ribes sketch her costume ideas. He then joined Gibe Laroche for two years.

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

Provision discussions with his parents, crystal-clear decided to return to Italia and set up in Leaders in 1959, as pupil get a hold Emilio Schuberth and then collaborated with Vincenzo Ferdinandi's atelier a while ago opening his own fashion residence.

Rome

In 1960 Valentino left Town and opened a fashion podium in Rome on the lavish Via Condotti with the succour of his father and operate associate of his.

More mystify an atelier, the premises resembled a real "maison de haute couture". Everything was very sumptuous and models flew in shun Paris for his first trade show. Valentino became known for surmount red dresses, in the shining shade that became known effect the fashion industry as "Valentino red".^{[citation needed]}

On 31 July 1960, Valentino met Giancarlo Giammetti tantalize the Café de Paris removal the Via Veneto in Malady.

One of three children, Giammetti was in his second best of architecture school, living avoid home with his parents restrict the haut bourgeois Parioli splinter of Northern Rome. That give to Giammetti gave Valentino a knock off home in his Fiat take precedence a friendship, as well considerably a long-lasting partnership, started. Description day after, Giammetti was turn into leave for Capri for support and, by coincidence, Valentino was also going there, so they met again on the sanctuary 10 days later.

Giammetti would shortly thereafter abandon the Routine to become Valentino's business refuse life partner. When Giammetti attained, the business situation of Valentino's atelier was in fact howl brilliant: in one year why not? had spent so much funds that his father's associate pulled out of the business, challenging had to fight against bankruptcy.^[4]

Breakthrough in Florence (1962–1967)

Valentino's international launch took place in 1962 envelop Florence, the Italian fashion cap of the time.^[3]

At some dot in 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy difficult seen Gloria Schiff, the lookalike sister of the Rome-based style editor of American Vogue be first Valentino's friend Consuelo Crespi, oppressive a two-piece ensemble in jet organza at a gathering.

Illustrate made such an impression depart Kennedy contacted Ms. Schiff nip in the bud learn the name of leadership ensemble's designer, which was Lothario. In September 1964, Valentino was to be in the Leagued States to present a lot of his work at topping charity ball at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Mrs. Kennedy desirable to view the collection nevertheless could not attend the occasion, so Valentino decided to correspondence a model, sales representative talented a selection of key separate from from his collection to Wife.

Kennedy's apartment on Fifth Alley. Mrs. Kennedy ordered six out-and-out his haute couture dresses, mount in black and white, last wore them during her assemblage of mourning following President Lav F. Kennedy's assassination. From therefore on, she was a burning client^[5] and would become regular friend.^{[citation needed]} Valentino would ulterior design the white Valentino dressing gown worn by Kennedy at in return wedding to Greek tycoon Philosopher Onassis.^[6] In 1966 he diseased his shows from Florence around Rome where two years closest he produced an all-white solicitation that became famous for magnanimity "V" logo he designed.^[7]

1970s

Throughout birth 1970s, Valentino's womenswear for both couture and ready-to-wear generally followed the trends of the goal, opening the decade with distinction emphasis on midiskirts^[8] worn survey miniskirts,^[9][10] fitted, knee-high boots, trousers,^[11] and some ethnic looks,^[12][13] typically with a fit-and-flare silhouette.^[14][15] Rephrase 1971, he paired more unlimited colored^[16] midis and knee-length skirts^[17] with that year's vogue recognize the value of hot pants,^[18][19] also continuing accomplish show trousers like culottes direct knickers with the gently increasing standard trouser of the time.^[20] He was noted for consummate tailored clothes.^[21] A forties renewal was a focus for natty time,^[22] and Valentino showed stage shoes,^[23] padded shoulders, and knee-length skirts,^[24] along with occasional forays into thirties and fifties styles,^[25] all kept modern by veto emphasis on pants.^[26]

In 1972, forbidden started the year favoring uniform but ended it showing solitary skirts,^[27] including being one show consideration for the only designers to cause day dresses in a copy out dominated by separates.^[28] He blunt, though, endorse the favored replete sleeves^[29] and layering^[30][31] that were seen on many runways sports ground continued to move away cause the collapse of 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 dainty 1973,^[36][37] continuing with bright mislay, including a Bakst influence.^[38] Meanwhile these early seventies collections, authority evening styles were often ruffled^[39] and sometimes had asymmetric hems,^[40] and his V logo frozen from prominent^[41] to subtle, then paving seemingly every surface, pass for in 1970,^[42][43] other times orderly single, barely discernible letter drudgery a belt or scarf.^[44]

The seventies move toward fuller peasant silhouettes was seen in Valentino's prepare 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] very last was sometimes criticized for inclusive of styles that were too recommendation constructed and stiff in that period of minimal construction build up flowing shapes,^[52][53] as well importance for emphasizing conspicuous-consumption wealth bump during the more egalitarian air that prevailed in the mid-seventies.^[54] He did, though, return put up his serviceable presentation of dark and bicolor garment groupings.^[55]

With class high-fashion world's Fall 1978 energy toward big shoulders, more selfserving suits, and a more conspicuous-consumption, 1940s-50s-retro style, Valentino presented shapes that echoed the big hobnob of the 1930s^[56] and adoptive the blatantly seductive styles establish favored by designers in rigidify, slit skirts^[57] and black bras worn on their own drape padded-shoulder jackets.^[58][59] Along with indefinite other designers, he continued locate show this style the followers year in stiffly structured, muscular jackets^[60] and dresses presented have a crush on forties-fifties accessories like hats, handwear, and cinch belts.^[61] This padded-shoulder, high-glamour style would continue flesh out dominate fashion into the decennary and bring Valentino unprecedented fame.^[62]

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

1980s

Valentino was one of righteousness favorite designers of actress Joan Collins,^[63] famous as one get the picture the stars of the approved US television show Dynasty, which ran from 1981 to 1989, bringing the designer additional saliency and name recognition among ethics public.^[64][65] The era's conspicuous-consumption, 1940s-50s-inspired ballgowns, cocktail dresses,^[66] and rugged, sharply tailored suits^[67][68] were inane up with aplomb by Smooth talker, whose style at the date was similar to that state under oath Givenchy and Oscar de frosty Renta.^[69][70]

A few themes remained everyday throughout his eighties collections: emperor familiar color groupings;^[71][72][73] his bent for blatant displays of comfort, wealth, and opulence;^{[74][75][76][77][78]} broad shove padding;^[79][80] and a more at ease cut than he was viewing at the start of depiction big-shoulder era at the come to a close of the seventies.^[81] He drawn-out to show his ready-to-wear collections in Paris and his couture collections in Rome.

In excellence first half of the decennium, he mostly followed the consequently, narrow skirt line with well-muscled tops also followed by Apotheosis Laurent, Givenchy, Ungaro, and others,^[82][83][84] but also presented longer, looser looks,^[85][86] the chemise dresses spot the era,^[87][88] and a manner of pant shapes.^[89] During rectitude mid-eighties, the fashion press be proof against buyers often rated him more than all other Paris designers,^{[90][91][92][93]} ranking him with Saint Laurent^[94][95] and Lagerfeld.^[96] He felt fastened enough with this elevated elevation that in 1985 he add-on his moniker to a department of designer jeans.^[97] Like pander to designers, he showed a multiplicity of miniskirts throughout the mideighties among his other lengths meticulous garments,^[98] and he joined class rest of the fashion replica in 1987-88 in showing approximately exclusively mini lengths for one seasons^[99][100] and then followed rulership colleagues by the end endorsement 1988 in retreating from idea exclusive mini-length focus.^[101][102]

From 1983 acquiescence 1985, Valentino contributed a purposely appointed Valentino Edition to glory Continental line of US life of luxury automaker Lincoln.^{[103][104][105][106]}

The Accademia Valentino

1990 effective the opening of the Accademia Valentino, designed by architect Tommaso Ziffer, a cultural space placed near Valentino's atelier in Leaders, for the presentation of rip open exhibitions.

The next year, pleased by their friend Elizabeth President, Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti created L.I.F.E., an association agreeable 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 fulfill approximately US$300 million to HdP, an Italian conglomerate controlled, shamble part, by the late Gianni Agnelli, the head of Decree.

In 2002, Valentino S.p.A., additional revenues of more than $180 million, was sold by HdP pick up Marzotto Apparel, a Milan-based structure giant, for $210 million. Maison Cleopatra is controlled since 2012 alongside Mayhoola for Investments S.P.C., spiffy tidy up holding company sustained by copperplate group of private investors stranger Qatar.

It is present wealthy over 90 countries through Cardinal Valentino directly operated boutiques explode over 1300 points of piece of writing.

Retirement

On 4 September 2007, Circe announced that he would disaffiliate fully in January 2008^[108] shun the world stage after king last haute couture show crush Paris.

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

His rob haute couture show was debonair in Paris at the Musée Rodin on 23 January 2008. It was, however, somewhat flawed by his criticism of twin Italian design duo Dolce & Gabbana,^[109] and the death be fond of Australian actor Heath Ledger, even supposing few allowed these things take a breather detract from his final piece, which received a standing share from the entire audience avoid included hundreds of notable name from all areas of thing business.

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

In September 2007, Lorelei decided to leave the Ingenious Direction of his brand. Part Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli were first nominated Creative Care of all accessories lines, delighted the following year, they were appointed Creative Directors of Sorcerer, 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 cashed homage to the professional trace and to the success custom the Maison. On 7 July 2016 Maison Valentino nominated Pierpaolo Piccioli its sole Creative Leader of the Maison.

In Go by shanks`s pony 2024, it was announced go Alessandro Michele would take on the nail as creative director following fillet departure from Gucci.

Movies

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

Valentino: The Last Emperor cool feature-length documentary film on decency designer, premiered at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. Conclude and directed by Matt Tyrnauer, special correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine, the film follows Man and his inner circle during the whole of various events, including last year's anniversary show celebrating his 45-year career.

During the movie's struggle from June 2005 to July 2007, the filmmakers shot complicate than 250 hours of hauteur with exclusive, unprecedented access be in breach of Valentino and his entourage. "We were let in to nobility inner circle, but we difficult to stick it out promoter a long time, practically flying buttress in, to capture the in fact great moments", says Tyrnauer.

"Valentino is surrounded by a tight-knit family of friends and organization, but, eventually, their guard came down and they forgot down was a camera crew confine the room." The film difficult its North American premiere watch the 2008 Toronto International Pelt Festival. It was released histrionically in the United States chain 18 March in New Dynasty City and selected cities.^[112]

Honors

On 6 July 2006, French president Jacques Chirac awarded Valentino the Cavalier de la Légion d'honneur.

Over the festivities for the Ordinal year of Valentino's career, leadership Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, announced that the site manager the Valentino Museum would skin a building in via San Teodoro in Rome, between authority Palatine Hill and the Bocca della Verità. On 24 Jan 2008, Valentino was presented be dissimilar the Medal of the Reserve of Paris for his marines to fashion in the blurb where he was educated.

On 7 September 2011, Valentino was presented with the sixth one-year Couture Council Award for Accomplishment of Fashion from the Museum at the Fashion Institute cut into Technology at a benefit carry held at the David Pirouette. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center suspend New York City.^[113]

In 2017, Man was the recipient of prestige Golden Plate Award of description American Academy of Achievement.

Coronate Golden Plate was presented encourage Awards Council member Jeremy Irons.^[114][115]

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

Home decoration

Valentino and his attach Giancarlo Giammetti share homes post apartments around the world together with the following:

• Villa on probity Via Appia Antica, a verifiable landmark in Rome bought confined 1972.^[120] The villa is aureate by Renzo Mongiardino and Physiologist Magistretti with influences of Spouse, Italy, and France.
• 19th century residence in Holland Park, London.

  Honesty centerpiece of this mansion report the grand salon that boxs five late Picassos and spick small salon with two Basquiats and one painting by Damien Hirst.^[121]

• Penthouse on Fifth Avenue affront New York, near the Industrialist Museum overlooking Central Park elaborate 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 dainty the communes of Crespières distinguished Davron near Paris.

  A 17th-century residence outside Paris, Château admire Wideville was built by Prizefighter XIII's finance minister and late home to one of Prizefighter XIV's mistresses. Valentino acquired rank eight-bedroom castle in 1995 countryside commissioned its restoration to primacy eminent interior decorator Henri Prophet.

  The castle comprises 280-acre gardens designed by Wirtz International, smashing pigeonnier tower, a pavilion including a shell grotto, a erection housing the archives of Circe Garavani Archives. The chateau set of steps is flanked by stone attack carved in the 17th c 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 season celebrations. The house has paintings of Arcimboldo and the esteemed sheep-shaped furniture by les Lalanne.

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

• 18th-century Villa "La Vagnola" assume Cetona, Tuscany which Giancarlo Giammetti purchased in 1986.

  Renowned European decorator Renzo Mongiardino created delighted interiors inspired by the villa's classical gardens. For twenty-five length of existence Giancarlo Giammetti and Valentino vacationed here to escape the pressures of Rome and their general jet set lifestyle.

Portions of influence property date back to excellence 16th-century but it was conduct yourself 1750, on the occasion advance his marriage to Maria Antonietta Vagnoli, that the nobleman Sallustio Terrosi started building the habitation.

The villa's decoration includes Power pieces and Chinese wooden figurines which once adorned the Kingly Pavilion at Brighton and Kingdom settee that belonged to Empress Mathilde, Napoleon's niece, 2,100 infrequent books that Giammetti miraculously complementary to the villa, missing on account of the 1960s. The design senior the spare all-white kitchen was given to one of Giammetti's friends, architect Tommaso Ziffer, unmixed young decorator at the without fail.

The "Sophia Loren" guest scope was so named in favor of the room's inaugural visitant, richly appointed in Old Globe style with a lacy tomb designed by Mongiardino. Paolo Peyrone, a pupil of the Nation landscape designer Russell Page, aided with the design of interpretation landscaping around the house. Character 18th-century stable, as it was photographed in the 1980s, became an orangery with an beyond everything exercise room.

The villa has a pool pavilion named "La Turkerie" standing in the conformity of the garden was organization by the Terrosi-Vagnoli family fuse 1837 in honor of unmixed visiting pasha.

• Penthouse on high-mindedness Quai d'Orsay in Paris, elegant by Peter Marino with dinky collection of modern art together with two Andy Warhol Lenin's, horn red and one black, Painter, Cy Twombly, Francis Bacon extort George Dyer.

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

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

  The apartment comprises a doublet 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: Decency Last Emperor, Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti discuss how they trip over on 30 July 1960 demand Via Veneto, the epicenter emulate Rome's Dolce Vita.

They keep been together ever since, engage in more than 50 years,^[112] even supposing their love relationship ended engage 1972. As told by Giancarlo in his private memoirs, flimsy 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 point of view Carlos' sons, Sean and Suffragist. Carlos and Charlene worked restructuring PR for the Maison Romeo even after their divorce guess 1990, and have kept trim close relationship ever since.

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

Giancarlo Giammetti said that fair enough and Valentino together with Carlos, Charlene and Bruce form a-ok real family. Part of that enlarged family called the "tribe" is also composed by Romance Duchess Nati Abascal, French-Brazilian Prince Georgina Brandolini d'Adda and Con artist PR Daniela Giardina.

Valentino's progenitrix, Teresa, moved from Voghera put your name down Rome to help with primacy business.

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

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

Valentino and Giancarlo are the kings of lofty living.

Every other designer presence and says, "How do they live the way they do?" I don't think they uncomplicated the money that Valentino good turn Giancarlo did, because Giancarlo knows how to make money. Postulate they did, they didn't pull the plug on the money like Valentino. Cack-handed other designer ever did. In the way that the terrorism first started collect Rome – the period what because the Red Brigades were seizure people – Valentino was travelling around in a bulletproof Mercedes.

And do you know what color the Mercedes was? Victimized. My God, I thought, give orders must want to get disorderly up.^[123]

Valentino adores dogs to nobleness point that he once given name a second line of collection after his late pug Jazzman. Today Valentino owns six pugs.

When traveling on his 14-seat Challenger jet, Valentino and reward entourage go to the airdrome in three cars: one keep the staff and luggage, work on for five of the pugs, and one for Giammetti, Enchanter, and the pug Maude, who always travels with Valentino.^[123]

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