When the designer launched his first couture line in 1962 with its fiery red colors, it was internationally celebrated, with Valentino soon attiring fashion trendsetters including Princess Margaret and Audrey Hepburn. One of his earliest clients was Elizabeth Taylor, who discovered Valentino while she was in Rome filming Cleopatra and ordered the white dress that she wore to the premiere of Spartacus. It was located on Rome’s trendy Via Condotti and modeled after the French maisons. In 1959, Valentino returned to Italy, and a year later, he opened his own salon, soon joining with longtime professional and personal partner Giancarlo Giammetti. Valentino spent time apprenticing under haute couturiers Jean Dessès and Guy Laroche, learning how to design and construct high fashion while also thinking about how to strike out on his own. While a teenager in Voghera, Lombardy, he studied under Italian designer Ernestina Salvadeo and soon moved to Paris, where he trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne.
1932) is renowned for his fashion house of romantic styles and feminine shapes that he founded in Rome in 1960.Īn early fascination with fashion developed when Valentino attended the theater as a child and was dazzled by the evening gowns on stage. The mononymously known Italian designer Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani (b.
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