Valentino is a fashion house created by Valentino Garavani, a famous fashion designer born in Voghera, Italy, in May 1932, Valentino's childhood interests in fashion, painting and architecture, coupled with an immense talent for drawing, prompted him to study fashion design and French at the Accademia dell Arte in Milan. His success led him to further studies at Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, and it was there Valentino flourished. He became interested in fashion while in high school, during which time he studied under Vogherese designer Ernestina Salvadeo, an aunt of noted artist Aldo Giorgini, and at the age 17 he moved to Paris to pursue the interest.
He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. He first found apprentice jobs, with Jean Desses where he used to help Jacqueline de Ribes sketch dress ideas. Then he joined Jean Desses and Guy Laroche. He moved to Rome in the 60s and started a fashion house, Valentino. His first show, in 1962, was a success, and Valentino was welcomed into the fashion world. In 1967, he premiered a Valentino White Collection, which became famous for the "V" logo. He designed a white dress Jacqueline Kennedy wore to her wedding with Aristotle Onassis.
Through the 1970s Valentino spent considerable time in New York City
where his presence was embraced by social personalities such as Steve
Rubell and art identities such as Andy Warhol. He currently designs
menswear and womenswear and has a perfume and make up line. In 1990,
he cofounded the L.I.F.E. Association with Giancarlo Giammetti, a program
for the support of AIDS victims. He is now 73 years old, still designing,
and living in Rome.
Haute couture (French for 'high sewing' or 'high dressmaking') refers to the creation of exclusive fashions.
Gwyneth Paltrow brought a dash of old fashioned Hollywood glamour to
the London première of her film Sylvia in 2003.
The screening of the film, about the poet Sylvia Plath, closed the London
Film Festival She wore a Valentino to the occasion.
Oprah has also covered how he creates his haute couture clothing in one of her shows in 2005. She also wrote a page in her magazine, O, expressing how she had admired his clothing long before she could afford them.
When Jennifer Lopez was married in 2001 her dress was designed by Valentino
despite reports that she would be wearing a £10,000 Donatella
Versace dress.
The grandson of Italy's last king, who was removed after bringing the
Italian facists into power, married a French actress in 2003 in a lavish
ceremony at historic Roman church. Around 1,200 people are thought to
have attended the wedding of Emmanuele Filiberto and Clotilde Courau.
The bride was initially viewed with disaste by Filiberto's father, Vittorio
Emmanuel, because of her left - wing views. Fortunately this snobbery
was defeated. Courau sported a Valentino dress, a veil held in place
by a diamond tiara and gems belonging to the House of Savoy.
Some blame Valentino for popularising the shahtoosh, and he is said
to own 200 of the shawls.
The animal which produces the clothing the chiru lives at 14,000ft on the arid steppe of the Tibetan plateau and is hunted by Chinese and Tibetan poachers, armed with machine guns. In the last ten years chiru numbers have fallen from a million to just 75,000.
The fashion designer made some snooty comments when he desrcibed film stars Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz as dressing like bag ladies, compared to glamorous Hollywood greats.
In a talk show Posh Spice Girl interviewed fashion designer Valentino
The origin of the surname is Italian. Spelling variations include Valentich,
Valenti, Vajenti, Vaienti, Valent, Valente, Valentic, Valentin, Valentineli,
Valentuzzi and many more. First found in Vicenza, anciently known as
Vicetia, a town in Venetia, capital of the province of Vicenza.
Other uses of the name
album by Weeping Tile, see Valentino (album).
Valentino is also Italian for Valentinois, a duchy formerly ruled by the Duke of Valentinois which is now part of Valence, Drôme.
Cesare Borgia was sometimes called Valentino.
Famous silent actor (1895-1926), Rudolph Valentino.
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