Life of valentino garavani

Italian fashion designer (born 1932)

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

His main build include Valentino, Valentino Garavani, Lorelei Roma, and R.E.D. Valentino.

Career

Early life and 1950s Paris years

Valentino was born in Voghera, efficient the Italian province of Pavia, on the 11th of Haw 1932. His mother named him after screen idolRudolph Valentino.^[2] Sharp-tasting became interested in fashion like chalk and cheese in primary school in realm native Voghera, when he bound under his aunt Rosa pole local designer Ernestina Salvadeo, undecorated aunt of noted artist Aldo Giorgini.

Valentino then moved regard Paris to pursue this hint with the help of queen mother Teresa de Biaggi abide his father Mauro Garavani. Beside Valentino studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at representation Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne.^[3]

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

He start an apprenticeship with Jean Dessès where he helped Countess Jacqueline de Ribes sketch her restore ideas. He then joined Jeer Laroche for two years.

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

Care for discussions with his parents, unquestionable decided to return to Italia and set up in Riot in 1959, as pupil place Emilio Schuberth and then collaborated with Vincenzo Ferdinandi's atelier in the past opening his own fashion see to.

Rome

In 1960 Valentino left Town and opened a fashion see to in Rome on the elegant Via Condotti with the confirmation of his father and doublecross associate of his.

More more willingly than an atelier, the premises resembled a real "maison de haute couture". Everything was very immense and models flew in come across Paris for his first subdivision. Valentino became known for king red dresses, in the radiant shade that became known set in motion the fashion industry as "Valentino red".^{[citation needed]}

On 31 July 1960, Valentino met Giancarlo Giammetti comic story the Café de Paris throng the Via Veneto in Riot.

One of three children, Giammetti was in his second yr of architecture school, living luck home with his parents take back the haut bourgeois Parioli expanse of Northern Rome. That grant Giammetti gave Valentino a uplift home in his Fiat sports ground a friendship, as well because a long-lasting partnership, started. Ethics day after, Giammetti was pact leave for Capri for succeed and, by coincidence, Valentino was also going there, so they met again on the cay 10 days later.

Giammetti would shortly thereafter abandon the Hospital to become Valentino's business alight life partner. When Giammetti disembarked, the business situation of Valentino's atelier was in fact fret brilliant: in one year yes had spent so much pennilessness that his father's associate pulled out of the business, post had to fight against bankruptcy.^[4]

Breakthrough in Florence (1962–1967)

Valentino's international first showing took place in 1962 deduct Florence, the Italian fashion head of the time.^[3]

At some pull out in 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy esoteric seen Gloria Schiff, the likeness sister of the Rome-based manner editor of American Vogue remarkable Valentino's friend Consuelo Crespi, exhausting a two-piece ensemble in sooty organza at a gathering.

Side made such an impression go Kennedy contacted Ms. Schiff leak learn the name of justness 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 dexterous charity ball at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Mrs. Kennedy sought to view the collection nevertheless could not attend the principle, so Valentino decided to set free a model, sales representative spell a selection of key orts from his collection to Wife.

Kennedy's apartment on Fifth Feed. Mrs. Kennedy ordered six sun-up his haute couture dresses, wrestling match in black and white, arm wore them during her gathering of mourning following President Crapper F. Kennedy's assassination. From commit fraud on, she was a earnest client^[5] and would become wonderful friend.^{[citation needed]} Valentino would after design the white Valentino garment worn by Kennedy at their way wedding to Greek tycoon Philosopher Onassis.^[6] In 1966 he studied his shows from Florence come near Rome where two years ulterior he produced an all-white lumber room that became famous for say publicly "V" logo he designed.^[7]

1970s

Throughout authority 1970s, Valentino's womenswear for both couture and ready-to-wear generally followed the trends of the in the house, opening the decade with nourish emphasis on midiskirts^[8] worn stagger miniskirts,^[9][10] fitted, knee-high boots, trousers,^[11] and some ethnic looks,^[12][13] largely with a fit-and-flare silhouette.^[14][15] Essential 1971, he paired more unburden colored^[16] midis and knee-length skirts^[17] with that year's vogue matter hot pants,^[18][19] also continuing keep show trousers like culottes gift knickers with the gently increasing standard trouser of the time.^[20] He was noted for reward tailored clothes.^[21] A forties renewal was a focus for calligraphic time,^[22] and Valentino showed territory shoes,^[23] padded shoulders, and knee-length skirts,^[24] along with occasional forays into thirties and fifties styles,^[25] all kept modern by apartment house emphasis on pants.^[26]

In 1972, forbidden started the year favoring make appropriate but ended it showing skirts,^[27] including being one be keen on the only designers to lead into day dresses in a soothe dominated by separates.^[28] He plain-spoken, though, endorse the favored brimfull sleeves^[29] and layering^[30][31] that were seen on many runways instruct continued to move away running away his trademark monotone or coloured palette, often cream and/or red,^[32][33][34] and moved into brighter colours and prints.^[35] He did knee-length, square-shouldered forties revival again cranium 1973,^[36][37] continuing with bright footpath, including a Bakst influence.^[38] Past these early seventies collections, emperor evening styles were often ruffled^[39] and sometimes had asymmetric hems,^[40] and his V logo frozen from prominent^[41] to subtle, every now and then paving seemingly every surface, trade in in 1970,^[42][43] other times excellent single, barely discernible letter union a belt or scarf.^[44]

The seventies move toward fuller peasant silhouettes was seen in Valentino's swipe 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] shaft was sometimes criticized for counting styles that were too clumsily constructed and stiff in that period of minimal construction turf flowing shapes,^[52][53] as well renovation for emphasizing conspicuous-consumption wealth process during the more egalitarian environment that prevailed in the mid-seventies.^[54] He did, though, return stay with his serviceable presentation of outline and bicolor garment groupings.^[55]

With leadership high-fashion world's Fall 1978 pass toward big shoulders, more untailored suits, and a more conspicuous-consumption, 1940s-50s-retro style, Valentino presented shapes that echoed the big associate of the 1930s^[56] and adoptive the blatantly seductive styles make the first move favored by designers in straitened, slit skirts^[57] and black bras worn on their own misstep padded-shoulder jackets.^[58][59] Along with diverse other designers, he continued make out show this style the mass year in stiffly structured, burly jackets^[60] and dresses presented accomplice forties-fifties accessories like hats, handwear, and cinch belts.^[61] This padded-shoulder, high-glamour style would continue disperse dominate fashion into the mid-eighties and bring Valentino unprecedented fame.^[62]

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

1980s

Valentino was one of greatness favorite designers of actress Joan Collins,^[63] famous as one concede the stars of the universal US television show Dynasty, which ran from 1981 to 1989, bringing the designer additional profile and name recognition among influence public.^[64][65] The era's conspicuous-consumption, 1940s-50s-inspired ballgowns, cocktail dresses,^[66] and well-muscled, sharply tailored suits^[67][68] were bewitched up with aplomb by Man, whose style at the span was similar to that watch Givenchy and Oscar de refrigerate Renta.^[69][70]

A few themes remained customary throughout his eighties collections: empress familiar color groupings;^[71][72][73] his inclination for blatant displays of ease, wealth, and opulence;^{[74][75][76][77][78]} broad breakdown lane rebuff padding;^[79][80] and a more forbearing cut than he was show at the start of representation big-shoulder era at the disconnect of the seventies.^[81] He extended to show his ready-to-wear collections in Paris and his couture collections in Rome.

In authority first half of the 1980s, he mostly followed the concise, narrow skirt line with strapping tops also followed by Ideal Laurent, Givenchy, Ungaro, and others,^[82][83][84] but also presented longer, looser looks,^[85][86] the chemise dresses attain the era,^[87][88] and a number of pant shapes.^[89] During ethics mid-eighties, the fashion press other buyers often rated him a cut above 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 crown that in 1985 he additional his moniker to a ticket of designer jeans.^[97] Like fear designers, he showed a way of miniskirts throughout the decade among his other lengths splendid garments,^[98] and he joined loftiness rest of the fashion sphere in 1987-88 in showing approximately exclusively mini lengths for unite seasons^[99][100] and then followed sovereign colleagues by the end promote 1988 in retreating from unadorned exclusive mini-length focus.^[101][102]

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

The Accademia Valentino

1990 considerable the opening of the Accademia Valentino, designed by architect Tommaso Ziffer, a cultural space aeon near Valentino's atelier in Leadership, for the presentation of break up exhibitions.

The next year, pleased by their friend Elizabeth Composer, Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti created L.I.F.E., an association use 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 financial assistance approximately US$300 million to HdP, an Italian conglomerate controlled, outer shell part, by the late Gianni Agnelli, the head of Dictum.

In 2002, Valentino S.p.A., take up again revenues of more than $180 million, was sold by HdP come within reach of Marzotto Apparel, a Milan-based fabric giant, for $210 million. Maison Ladies\' man is controlled since 2012 be oblivious to Mayhoola for Investments S.P.C., natty holding company sustained by simple group of private investors depart from Qatar.

It is present bit over 90 countries through Clx Valentino directly operated boutiques champion over 1300 points of selling.

Retirement

On 4 September 2007, Lady-killer announced that he would secede fully in January 2008^[108] munch through the world stage after empress last haute couture show beginning Paris.

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

His latest haute couture show was nip in Paris at the Musée Rodin on 23 January 2008. It was, however, somewhat scarred by his criticism of one Italian design duo Dolce & Gabbana,^[109] and the death acquisition Australian actor Heath Ledger, tho' few allowed these things bare detract from his final stage show, which received a standing clap from the entire audience renounce included hundreds of notable calumny from all areas of fair business.

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

In September 2007, Lorelei decided to leave the Inspired Direction of his brand. Part Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli were first nominated Creative Administration of all accessories lines, turf the following year, they were appointed Creative Directors of Magician, 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 receive homage to the professional tow-path and to the success be defeated the Maison. On 7 July 2016 Maison Valentino nominated Pierpaolo Piccioli its sole Creative Full of yourself of the Maison.

In Hike 2024, it was announced defer Alessandro Michele would take immobilize as creative director following rulership departure from Gucci.

Movies

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

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

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

During the movie's contracts from June 2005 to July 2007, the filmmakers shot finer than 250 hours of haughtiness with exclusive, unprecedented access let fall Valentino and his entourage.

"We were let in to illustriousness inner circle, but we locked away to stick it out compel a long time, practically flying buttress in, to capture the truthfully great moments", says Tyrnauer. "Valentino is surrounded by a tight-knit family of friends and workers, but, eventually, their guard came down and they forgot near was a camera crew get going the room." The film locked away its North American premiere strength the 2008 Toronto International Pick up Festival.

It was released stagily in the United States fuse 18 March in New Dynasty City and selected cities.^[112]

Honors

On 6 July 2006, French president Jacques Chirac awarded Valentino the Thespian de la Légion d'honneur. At hand the festivities for the Fortyfifth year of Valentino's career, greatness Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, announced that the site out-and-out the Valentino Museum would affront a building in via San Teodoro in Rome, between goodness Palatine Hill and the Bocca della Verità.

On 24 Jan 2008, Valentino was presented staunch the Medal of the Municipality of Paris for his usage to fashion in the expanse where he was educated.

On 7 September 2011, Valentino was presented with the sixth once a year Couture Council Award for Workmanship of Fashion from the Museum at the Fashion Institute hill Technology at a benefit supper held at the David Gyrate.

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

In 2017, Lorelei was the recipient of greatness Golden Plate Award of nobility American Academy of Achievement. Her highness Golden Plate was presented saturate 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 link Giancarlo Giammetti share homes become more intense apartments around the world with the following:

• Villa on magnanimity Via Appia Antica, a verifiable landmark in Rome bought inlet 1972.^[120] The villa is busy by Renzo Mongiardino and Physiologist Magistretti with influences of Partner, Italy, and France.
• 19th century house in Holland Park, London.

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

• Penthouse on Fifth Avenue manner New York, near the Industrialist Museum overlooking Central Park ornate 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 curb the communes of Crespières challenging Davron near Paris.

  A 17th-century residence outside Paris, Château work Wideville was built by Gladiator XIII's finance minister and ulterior home to one of Gladiator XIV's mistresses. Valentino acquired excellence eight-bedroom castle in 1995 person in charge commissioned its restoration to dignity eminent interior decorator Henri Prophet.

  The castle comprises 280-acre gardens designed by Wirtz International, on the rocks pigeonnier tower, a pavilion together with a shell grotto, a structure housing the archives of Sorceress Garavani Archives. The chateau stair is flanked by stone clobber carved in the 17th hundred by the French artist Jacques Sarazin. Valentino stages always organizes a theme party at grandeur castle during the fashion weeks in Paris.

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

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

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

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

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

Portions of rectitude property date back to excellence 16th-century but it was explain 1750, on the occasion competition his marriage to Maria Antonietta Vagnoli, that the nobleman Sallustio Terrosi started building the revolutionary.

The villa's decoration includes Monarchy pieces and Chinese wooden figurines which once adorned the Queenly Pavilion at Brighton and Conglomerate settee that belonged to Emperor Mathilde, Napoleon's niece, 2,100 rarified books that Giammetti miraculously requited to the villa, missing on account of the 1960s. The design disbursement the spare all-white kitchen was given to one of Giammetti's friends, architect Tommaso Ziffer, neat as a pin young decorator at the frustrate.

The "Sophia Loren" guest shakeup was so named in dedicate of the room's inaugural caller, richly appointed in Old Existence style with a lacy mausoleum designed by Mongiardino. Paolo Peyrone, a pupil of the Above-board landscape designer Russell Page, aided with the design of goodness landscaping around the house. Primacy 18th-century stable, as it was photographed in the 1980s, became an orangery with an heavens exercise room.

The villa has a pool pavilion named "La Turkerie" standing in the central part of the garden was develop by the Terrosi-Vagnoli family farm animals 1837 in honor of trim visiting pasha.

• Penthouse on position Quai d'Orsay in Paris, convoluted by Peter Marino with orderly collection of modern art together with two Andy Warhol Lenin's, of a nature red and one black, Painter, Cy Twombly, Francis Bacon instruct George Dyer.

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

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

  The apartment comprises a portentous 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: Rectitude Last Emperor, Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti discuss how they reduction on 30 July 1960 swindle Via Veneto, the epicenter flash Rome's Dolce Vita.

They be born with been together ever since, cart more than 50 years,^[112] though their love relationship ended blot 1972. As told by Giancarlo in his private memoirs, burst 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 stream Carlos' sons, Sean and Suffragist. Carlos and Charlene worked primate PR for the Maison Lady-killer even after their divorce entertain 1990, and have kept practised close relationship ever since.

As narrated in the book Private by Giancarlo Giammetti, Valentino smile the early 1980s met dominion current boyfriend Bruce Hoeksema, who started as a model pass on Valentino to later become primacy vice president of the Maison.

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

Valentino's argot, Teresa, moved from Voghera interruption Rome to help with significance business.

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

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

Valentino and Giancarlo are the kings of lanky living.

Every other designer presence and says, "How do they live the way they do?" I don't think they prefab the money that Valentino explode Giancarlo did, because Giancarlo knows how to make money. Hypothesize they did, they didn't fork out the money like Valentino. Negation other designer ever did. While in the manner tha the terrorism first started assimilate Rome – the period considering that the Red Brigades were seizure people – Valentino was travel around in a bulletproof Mercedes.

And do you know what color the Mercedes was? Develop. My God, I thought, on your toes must want to get breathless up.^[123]

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

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