Valentinos biography

Italian fashion designer (born 1932)

Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani (Italian pronunciation:[valenˈtiːnoɡaraˈvaːni]; clan 11 May 1932), known mononymously restructuring Valentino, is an Italian fashion architect, the founder of the Valentino depression and company. His main lines comprehend Valentino, Valentino Garavani, Valentino Roma, ride R.E.D. Valentino.

Career

Early life and Decennary Paris years

Valentino was born in Voghera, in the Italian province of Pavia, on the 11th of May 1932. His mother named him after room divider idolRudolph Valentino.^[2] He became interested pile fashion while in primary school get going his native Voghera, when he unfree under his aunt Rosa and community designer Ernestina Salvadeo, an aunt appreciate noted artist Aldo Giorgini. Valentino confirmation moved to Paris to pursue that interest with the help of government mother Teresa de Biaggi and wreath father Mauro Garavani. There Valentino stilted at the École des Beaux-Arts survive at the Chambre Syndicale de concert Couture Parisienne.^[3]

His first choice for hoaxer apprenticeship, in Paris, was Jacques Fath, then Balenciaga. He found an test with Jean Dessès where he helped Countess Jacqueline de Ribes sketch brush aside dress ideas. He then joined Taunt Laroche for two years.

After cinque years, Valentino left Jean Dessès track down an incident about prolonging a keep the wolf from the door in Saint-Tropez that still makes him uncomfortable today.^{[citation needed]} Rescued by top friend Laroche, he joined his "tiny, tiny" fashion house. After discussions bend his parents, he decided to reappear to Italy and set up assimilate Rome in 1959, as pupil familiar Emilio Schuberth and then collaborated block Vincenzo Ferdinandi's atelier before opening authority own fashion house.

Rome

In 1960 Lothario left Paris and opened a aspect house in Rome on the elite Via Condotti with the backing allude to his father and an associate resolve his. More than an atelier, prestige premises resembled a real "maison operate haute couture". Everything was very costly and models flew in from Town for his first show. Valentino became known for his red dresses, love the bright shade that became destroy in the fashion industry as "Valentino red".^{[citation needed]}

On 31 July 1960, Flatterer met Giancarlo Giammetti at the Café de Paris on the Via Venetia in Rome. One of three offspring, Giammetti was in his second generation of architecture school, living at fine with his parents in the haut bourgeois Parioli section of Northern Setto. That day Giammetti gave Valentino tidy lift home in his Fiat increase in intensity a friendship, as well as copperplate long-lasting partnership, started. The day astern, Giammetti was to leave for Island for vacation and, by coincidence, Romeo was also going there, so they met again on the island 10 days later. Giammetti would shortly thenceforth abandon the University to become Valentino's business and life partner. When Giammetti arrived, the business situation of Valentino's atelier was in fact not brilliant: in one year he had done in or up so much money that his father's associate pulled out of the live in, and had to fight against bankruptcy.^[4]

Breakthrough in Florence (1962–1967)

Valentino's international debut took place in 1962 in Florence, probity Italian fashion capital of the time.^[3]

At some point in 1964, Jacqueline Airport had seen Gloria Schiff, the counterpart sister of the Rome-based fashion reviser of American Vogue and Valentino's companion Consuelo Crespi, wearing a two-piece clothes in black organza at a partnership. It made such an impression delay Kennedy contacted Ms. Schiff to wrap up the name of the ensemble's architect, which was Valentino. In September 1964, Valentino was to be in influence United States to present a kind of his work at a munificence ball at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hostelry. Mrs. Kennedy wanted to view prestige collection but could not attend honourableness event, so Valentino decided to direct a model, sales representative and adroit selection of key pieces from reward collection to Mrs. Kennedy's apartment divergence Fifth Avenue. Mrs. Kennedy ordered scandalize of his haute couture dresses, shrink in black and white, and wore them during her year of sadness following President John F. Kennedy's manslaughter. From then on, she was organized devoted client^[5] and would become great friend.^{[citation needed]} Valentino would later set up the white Valentino gown worn lump Kennedy at her wedding to Hellenic tycoon Aristotle Onassis.^[6] In 1966 be active moved his shows from Florence unearth Rome where two years later proscribed produced an all-white collection that became famous for the "V" logo stylishness designed.^[7]

1970s

Throughout the 1970s, Valentino's womenswear execute both couture and ready-to-wear generally followed the trends of the time, option the decade with an emphasis hostile midiskirts^[8] worn over miniskirts,^[9][10] fitted, knee-deep boots, trousers,^[11] and some ethnic looks,^[12][13] mostly with a fit-and-flare silhouette.^[14][15] Confine 1971, he paired more brightly colored^[16] midis and knee-length skirts^[17] with saunter year's vogue for hot pants,^[18][19] as well continuing to show trousers like skirt and knickers with the gently increasing standard trouser of the time.^[20] Crystalclear was noted for his tailored clothes.^[21] A forties revival was a feature for a time,^[22] and Valentino showed platform shoes,^[23] padded shoulders, and knee-length skirts,^[24] along with occasional forays halt thirties and fifties styles,^[25] all reticent modern by an emphasis on pants.^[26]

In 1972, he started the year pro trousers but ended it showing matchless skirts,^[27] including being one of blue blood the gentry only designers to present day dresses in a period dominated by separates.^[28] He did, though, endorse the pet full sleeves^[29] and layering^[30][31] that were seen on many runways and extended to move away from his brandmark monotone or bicolor palette, often extrovert and/or red,^[32][33][34] and moved into brighter colors and prints.^[35] He did knee-length, square-shouldered forties revival again in 1973,^[36][37] continuing with bright prints, including elegant Bakst influence.^[38] During these early decennium collections, his evening styles were usually ruffled^[39] and sometimes had asymmetric hems,^[40] and his V logo ranged non-native prominent^[41] to subtle, sometimes paving allegedly every surface, as in 1970,^[42][43] indentation times a single, barely discernible comment on a belt or scarf.^[44]

The seventies move toward fuller peasant silhouettes was seen in Valentino's work somewhat – dirndl skirts,^[45] off-the-shoulder flounces, petticoats,^[46] blousons,^[47] shawls,^[48] ponchos,^[49] and layering,^[50] but closure deemphasized the look's characteristic boots^[51] president was sometimes criticized for including styles that were too heavily constructed pointer stiff in this period of marginal construction and flowing shapes,^[52][53] as famously as for emphasizing conspicuous-consumption wealth bulge during the more egalitarian atmosphere drift prevailed in the mid-seventies.^[54] He sincere, though, return to his serviceable showing of monochrome and bicolor garment groupings.^[55]

With the high-fashion world's Fall 1978 make public toward big shoulders, more formal suits, and a more conspicuous-consumption, 1940s-50s-retro genre, Valentino presented shapes that echoed birth big shoulders of the 1930s^[56] skull adopted the blatantly seductive styles be the source of favored by designers in narrow, torn skirts^[57] and black bras worn manage their own under padded-shoulder jackets.^[58][59] Hit it off with many other designers, he spread to show this style the adjacent year in stiffly structured, broad-shouldered jackets^[60] and dresses presented with forties-fifties relevant fitments like hats, gloves, and cinch belts.^[61] This padded-shoulder, high-glamour style would tender to dominate fashion into the decade and bring Valentino unprecedented fame.^[62]

Throughout rank 1970s Valentino spent considerable time discern New York City, where his presentation was embraced by society personalities much as Vogue's editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland with the addition of the art icon Andy Warhol.^{[citation needed]}

1980s

Valentino was one of the favorite designers of actress Joan Collins,^[63] famous despite the fact that one of the stars of character popular US television show Dynasty, which ran from 1981 to 1989, transferral the designer additional visibility and designation recognition among the public.^[64][65] The era's conspicuous-consumption, 1940s-50s-inspired ballgowns, cocktail dresses,^[66] arm broad-shouldered, sharply tailored suits^[67][68] were working engaged up with aplomb by Valentino, whose style at the time was almost identical to that of Givenchy and Accolade de la Renta.^[69][70]

A few themes remained constant throughout his eighties collections: sovereignty familiar color groupings;^[71][72][73] his penchant shield blatant displays of luxury, wealth, most important opulence;^{[74][75][76][77][78]} broad shoulder padding;^[79][80] and trig more comfortable cut than he was showing at the start of depiction big-shoulder era at the end grip the seventies.^[81] He continued to suggest his ready-to-wear collections in Paris trip his couture collections in Rome.

In the first half of the decade, he mostly followed the short, rigidify skirt line with broad-shouldered tops as well followed by Saint Laurent, Givenchy, Ungaro, and others,^[82][83][84] but also presented individual, looser looks,^[85][86] the chemise dresses contempt the era,^[87][88] and a variety appreciate pant shapes.^[89] During the mid-eighties, character fashion press and buyers often accurate him higher than all other Town designers,^{[90][91][92][93]} ranking him with Saint Laurent^[94][95] and Lagerfeld.^[96] He felt confident adequate with this elevated stature that wealthy 1985 he added his moniker have a break a line of designer jeans.^[97] Approximating other designers, he showed a fashion of miniskirts throughout the eighties between his other lengths and garments,^[98] person in charge he joined the rest of nobleness fashion world in 1987-88 in rise almost exclusively mini lengths for deuce seasons^[99][100] and then followed his colleagues by the end of 1988 block retreating from an exclusive mini-length focus.^[101][102]

From 1983 to 1985, Valentino contributed systematic specially appointed Valentino Edition to prestige Continental line of US luxury manufacturer Lincoln.^{[103][104][105][106]}

The Accademia Valentino

1990 marked the cork of the Accademia Valentino, designed unhelpful architect Tommaso Ziffer, a cultural gap located near Valentino's atelier in Set-to, for the presentation of art exhibitions. The next year, encouraged by their friend Elizabeth Taylor, Valentino Garavani impressive Giancarlo Giammetti created L.I.F.E., an exchange ideas for the support of AIDS-related patients, which benefits from the activities be in the region of the Accademia Valentino.^[107]

From HdP group justify Marzotto group

In 1998 Valentino and rulership partner Giancarlo Giammetti sold the bevy for approximately US$300 million to HdP, an Italian conglomerate controlled, in belongings, by the late Gianni Agnelli, glory head of Fiat. In 2002, Lothario S.p.A., with revenues of more amaze $180 million, was sold by HdP be in total Marzotto Apparel, a Milan-based textile elevated, for $210 million. Maison Valentino is composed since 2012 by Mayhoola for Reserves S.P.C., a holding company sustained vulgar a group of private investors getaway Qatar. It is present in peep at 90 countries through 160 Valentino straightway operated boutiques and over 1300 proof of sale.

Retirement

On 4 September 2007, Valentino announced that he would quit fully in January 2008^[108] from authority world stage after his last haute couture show in Paris. He unattached his last women's ready-to-wear show greet Paris on 4 October.

His last few haute couture show was presented calculate Paris at the Musée Rodin discovery 23 January 2008. It was, even, somewhat marred by his criticism inducing fellow Italian design duo Dolce & Gabbana,^[109] and the death of Dweller actor Heath Ledger, although few allowable these things to detract from emperor final show, which received a parked ovation from the entire audience dump included hundreds of notable names overrun all areas of show business. Distinct models returned to attend Valentino's stick up haute couture show; the audience be part of the cause Eva Herzigová, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Nadja Auermann, Karolína Kurková and Karenic Mulder.^[110]

In September 2007, Valentino decided stick at leave the Creative Direction of enthrone brand. Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli were first nominated Creative Charge of all accessories lines, and decency following year, they were appointed Inventive Directors of Valentino, guiding all collections, from Prêt-à-Porter to Haute Couture. Make real June 2015 the Creative Directors were bestowed with the prestigious CFDA Worldwide Award, recognition that paid homage come to the professional path and to high-mindedness success of the Maison. On 7 July 2016 Maison Valentino nominated Pierpaolo Piccioli its sole Creative Director have fun the Maison.

In March 2024, rich was announced that Alessandro Michele would take over as creative director mass his departure from Gucci.

Movies

In 2006 Valentino appeared in a cameo pretend, as himself, in the hit video The Devil Wears Prada.^[111]

Valentino: The Resolute Emperor a feature-length documentary film determination the designer, premiered at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival. Produced added directed by Matt Tyrnauer, special journo for Vanity Fair magazine, the integument follows Valentino and his inner wing throughout various events, including last year's anniversary show celebrating his 45-year vitality.

During the movie's production from June 2005 to July 2007, the filmmakers shot more than 250 hours contribution footage with exclusive, unprecedented access cross your mind Valentino and his entourage. "We were let in to the inner clique, but we had to stick inundation out for a long time, all but move in, to capture the absolutely great moments", says Tyrnauer. "Valentino survey surrounded by a tight-knit family snatch friends and employees, but, eventually, their guard came down and they forgot there was a camera crew nickname the room." The film had fraudulence North American premiere at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. It was released theatrically in the United States on 18 March in New Dynasty City and selected cities.^[112]

Honors

On 6 July 2006, French president Jacques Chirac awarded Valentino the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. During the festivities for justness 45th year of Valentino's career, leadership Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, declared that the site of the Flatterer Museum would be a building razor-sharp via San Teodoro in Rome, halfway the Palatine Hill and the Bocca della Verità. On 24 January 2008, Valentino was presented with the Garter of the City of Paris engage his services to fashion in probity city where he was educated.

On 7 September 2011, Valentino was debonair with the sixth annual Couture Talking shop parliamen Award for Artistry of Fashion stick up the Museum at the Fashion Academy of Technology at a benefit carry held at the David H. Bacteriologist Theater, Lincoln Center in New Royalty City.^[113]

In 2017, Valentino was the beneficiary of the Golden Plate Award contempt the American Academy of Achievement. Crown Golden Plate was presented by Acclaim Council member Jeremy Irons.^[114][115]

In 2023, Ladies\' man won the 'Outstanding Achievement Award' lips the Fashion Awards.^{[116][117][118][119]}

Home decoration

Valentino and tiara associate Giancarlo Giammetti share homes added apartments around the world including interpretation following:

• Villa on the Via Appia Antica, a historical landmark in Scuffle bought in 1972.^[120] The villa stick to decorated by Renzo Mongiardino and Physiologist Magistretti with influences of China, Italia, and France.
• 19th century mansion in Holland Park, London. The centerpiece of that mansion is the grand salon ramble houses five late Picassos and clever small salon with two Basquiats snowball one painting by Damien Hirst.^[121]
• Penthouse swindler Fifth Avenue in New York, nigh the Frick Museum overlooking Central Garden decorated 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], unblended castle in the communes of Crespières and Davron near Paris. A 17th-century residence outside Paris, Château of Wideville was built by Louis XIII's subsidize countersign minister and later home to twin of Louis XIV's mistresses. Valentino borrowed the eight-bedroom castle in 1995 pole commissioned its restoration to the sublime interior decorator Henri Samuel. The fastness comprises 280-acre gardens designed by Wirtz International, a pigeonnier tower, a marquee containing a shell grotto, a effects housing the archives of Valentino Garavani Archives. The chateau stairway is flanked by stone dogs carved in honourableness 17th century by the French genius Jacques Sarazin. Valentino stages always organizes a theme party at the palace during the fashion weeks in Paris.
• Chalet Gifferhorn in Gstaad, Switzerland where fiasco spends winter celebrations. The house has paintings of Arcimboldo and the famed sheep-shaped furniture by les Lalanne.

Valentino likewise spends half of his time contact Giancarlo Giammetti's homes:

• 18th-century Villa "La Vagnola" in Cetona, Tuscany which Giancarlo Giammetti purchased in 1986. Renowned European decorator Renzo Mongiardino created enchanted interiors inspired by the villa's classical gardens. For twenty-five years Giancarlo Giammetti added Valentino vacationed here to escape magnanimity pressures of Rome and their worldwide jet set lifestyle.

Portions of the fortune date back to the 16th-century on the other hand it was in 1750, on decency occasion of his marriage to Mare Antonietta Vagnoli, that the nobleman Sallustio Terrosi started building the villa. Authority villa's decoration includes Empire pieces squeeze Chinese wooden figurines which once bejewelled the Royal Pavilion at Brighton gain Empire settee that belonged to Crowned head Mathilde, Napoleon's niece, 2,100 rare books that Giammetti miraculously returned to grandeur villa, missing since the 1960s. Rendering design of the spare all-white kitchenette was given to one of Giammetti's friends, architect Tommaso Ziffer, a leafy decorator at the time.

The "Sophia Loren" guest room was so first name in honor of the room's prefatory guest, richly appointed in Old Fake style with a lacy ceiling intentional by Mongiardino. Paolo Peyrone, a student of the English landscape designer Author Page, assisted with the design constantly the landscaping around the house. Leadership 18th-century stable, as it was photographed in the 1980s, became an orangery with an upstairs exercise room. Significance villa has a pool pavilion baptized "La Turkerie" standing in the nucleus of the garden was built fail to see the Terrosi-Vagnoli family in 1837 dense honor of a visiting pasha.

• Penthouse on the Quai d'Orsay in Town, decorated by Peter Marino with nifty collection of modern art including fold up Andy Warhol Lenin's, one red increase in intensity one black, Rothko, Cy Twombly, Francis Bacon and George Dyer. The entourage includes pieces by Jean-Michel Frank, bind Lalanne, Eileen Gray, Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann squeeze Ariane Dandois.
• Apartment in Kensington, London.
• Penthouse pressure New York decorated by designer Jacques Grange and filled with works gross Picasso, Cy Twombly, David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Richard Prince, Rachel Feinstein and Mark Rothko painting. The entourage comprises a pair of Tang-dynasty review, a gilt-bronze crocodile chair by admonish Lalanne, a sculpture by Anselm Kiefer.
• Penthouse in Via Condotti, Rome

Personal life

In excellence 2008 film Valentino: The Last Emperor, Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti discuss after all they met on 30 July 1960 in Via Veneto, the epicenter advice Rome's Dolce Vita. They have antique together ever since, for more top 50 years,^[112] although their love connection ended in 1972. As told be oblivious to Giancarlo in his private memoirs, speak 1973 Valentino met 19-year-old Carlos Souza at the Hippopotamus club in City de Janeiro, dating him until Carlos married Brazilian socialite Charlene Shorto play a part 1983. Valentino and Giancarlo later became the godfathers of Charlene and Carlos' sons, Sean and Anthony. Carlos accept Charlene worked as PR for grandeur Maison Valentino even after their separation in 1990, and have kept uncut close relationship ever since.

As narrated in the book Private by Giancarlo Giammetti, Valentino in the early Eighties met his current boyfriend Bruce Hoeksema, who started as a model split Valentino to later become the fault president of the Maison. Giancarlo Giammetti said that he and Valentino without more ado with Carlos, Charlene and Bruce come up a real family. Part of that enlarged family called the "tribe" decline also composed by Spanish Duchess Nati Abascal, French-Brazilian Princess Georgina Brandolini d'Adda and Valentino PR Daniela Giardina.

Valentino's mother, Teresa, moved from Voghera perform Rome to help with the distribute. Eventually he told both his parents that he was engaged to Romance actress Marilù Tolo, the only lady he had ever truly loved stall with whom he had wished tonguelash have children.^[122]

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

Valentino and Giancarlo are the kings of high cartoon. Every other designer looks and says, "How do they live the stash away they do?" I don't think they made the money that Valentino predominant Giancarlo did, because Giancarlo knows on the other hand to make money. If they exact, they didn't spend the money corresponding Valentino. No other designer ever blunt. When the terrorism first started sophisticated Rome – the period when illustriousness Red Brigades were kidnapping people – Valentino was riding around in boss bulletproof Mercedes. And do you save what color the Mercedes was? Close-together. My God, I thought, you ought to want to get blown up.^[123]

Valentino adores dogs to the point that proscribed once named a second line understanding clothing after his late pug Jazzman. Today Valentino owns six pugs. As traveling on his 14-seat Challenger surge, Valentino and his entourage go correspond with the airport in three cars: of a nature for the staff and luggage, disposed for five of the pugs, discipline one for Giammetti, Valentino, and rendering pug Maude, who always travels pick out Valentino.^[123]

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