VALENTINO

“There is the Pope and there is Valentino. In this city, I don’t know who else is as famous.”

Valter Veltroni,The New Yorker

• Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani

• 11 May 1932, Lombardy • Italian and French

Nationality

• On 31 July 1960 Valentino met Giancarlo Giammetti and a friendship as well as a long-lasting partnership started.

• together for 12 years

• engaged with Italian actress Marilu Tolo,

• School of Fine Arts in Paris

• Assistant to Jacques Fath (a French fashion designer) and Balenciaga (Spanish designer)

• He joined Guy Laroche for 2 years

“Valentino Red”

• First show was in 1962 in Florence, Italy

• In 1966 he moved his fashions from Florence to Rome

• an all-withe collection- “collezione Bianca” the first clothes and accessories to have the magic “V” label

• the Neiman Marcus Award in 1967 (the equivalent of an Oscar in the field of fashion)

• Costumers and personal friends: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Margaret, Audrey Hepburn

• In 1969: boutique line of clothes and opens the first Valentino shop in Milan

• 1970 opening of Valenino boutiques in Rome and New York

• 1976 opens a boutique in Tokyo

• 1975 first fashion show of his Ready-to-wear collectoin

• 1989 first show of the Haute Couture collection

• September 4th, 2007 announced retirement

• adores dogs; line of clothing Oliver

• Healthy life: no drugs, alcohol, cigarettes

• In 2006 he did a role as himself in the movie The Devil Wears Prada

• Valentino: The Last Emperor (a documentary about him)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TcjeDq2e_M