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Valentino and the dream of elegance
Valentino was always in pursuit of glamour. Aged 14, he knew he “didn’t want what everybody else could have. I was a big dreamer, a big dreamer. Vivien Leigh, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, and Katharine Hepburn – I am a designer today because I would dream of those ladies in fox coats and lamé, coming down those grand staircases they had in the movies.” On 19 January Valentino’s foundation announced he had died aged 93 at his house in Rome. With ex…
For the designer, who died on January 19 in his Roman residence, beauty was a profession, a responsibility, a daily obstinacy. He was a builder of images, an author of sets, one who transformed couture into a form of education of the gaze
Monica Vitti, Jackie Kennedy, Barbra Streisand, Sophia Loren, Farah Pahlavi, Elizabeth Taylor... and more recently Sharon Stone, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow or even Kim Kardashian. Valentino Garavani has pursued a single obsession throughout his career. He wanted to dress the most iconic women on the planet. And those who had the most spoken of them in the media. Mission accomplished, through galas, evenings, receptions and red carpets, where…
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