Posts Tagged ‘Valentino’

In 1998 Valentino and his partner Giancarlo Giammetti sold the company for approximately $300 million to HDP, an Italian conglomerate controlled, in part, by the late Gianni Agnelli, the head of Fiat. In 2002, Valentino S.p.A., with revenues of more than $180 million, was sold by HDP to Marzotto Apparel, a Milan-based textile giant, for [...]

1989 marked the opening of the Accademia Valentino, designed by Architect Tommaso Ziffer, a cultural space located near his atelier in Rome, for the presentation of art exhbitions. The next year, encouraged by their friend Elizabeth Taylor, Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti created L.I.F.E., an association for the support of AIDS-related patients, which benefits from [...]

In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy had seen Gloria Schiff, the twin sister of the Rome-based fashion editor of American Vogue and Valentino’s friend Consuelo Crespi, wearing a two-piece ensemble in black organza at a party. Kennedy contacted Gloria Schiff to learn the name of the ensemble’s designer, Valentino. In September 1964, Valentino presented a collection of [...]

Valentino’s international debut took place in 1962 in Florence, the Italian fashion capital of the time. His first show at the Pitti Palace was welcomed as a true revelation and the young couturier was submerged by orders from foreign buyers and enthusiastic comments on the press.
After the breakthrough show in Florence, Valentino started to dress [...]

On 31 July 1960 Valentino met Giancarlo Giammetti at the Café de Paris on the Via Veneto in Rome. One of three children, Giammetti was in his second year of architecture school, living at home with his parents in the haut bourgeois Parioli section of Northern Rome. That day Giammetti gave Valentino a lift home [...]

Valentino became interested in men and women’s fashion while in primary school in his native Voghera, Lombardy, northern Italy, when he apprenticed under his aunt Rosa and local designer Ernestina Salvadeo, an aunt of noted artist Aldo Giorgini. At 17, Valentino moved to Paris to pursue this interest with the help of his mother Teresa [...]

Valentino was founded in 1965 when Garavani opened a sumptuous fashion house on Via Condotti in Rome, Italy with the backing of his father and his father’s associate.
The entrepreneurial skill of Giancarlo Giammetti, Garavani’s business partner and longtime boyfriend, proved fundamental to the worldwide expansion and success of Valentino. When Giammetti arrived, Valentino was in [...]

Valentino SpA is a clothing company founded in 1959 by Valentino Garavani. New creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli will take Alessandra Facchinetti’s seat as creative designer. Valentino is headquartered in Milan.
Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, best known as Valentino born 11 May 1932 is an Italian fashion designer and founder of the [...]