Gone are the times of pharaonic parties with hundreds of guests arriving in Rome from all over the world with their private jets, "due to the pandemic that has not yet been eradicated and the fear of contagion", Valentino Garavani, Last Emperor of Fashion, celebrates his memorable 90 years in Rome on 11 May, surrounded by his closest friends.
These include the inseparable life and business partner Giancarlo Giammetti, Daniela Giardina, historical spokesperson of the designer, the Brazilian brothers Sean and Anthony de Souza and their parents Carlos Souza and the Brazilian socialite Charlene Shorto de Ganay, both former Valentino's pierre.
Valentino and Giammetti are Anthony and Sean's godparents.
The location dedicated to hosting the party will probably be the villa located on the Via Appia Antica, chosen to celebrate the birthday among the many luxury mansions of the designer around the world.
Among these, the Wideville Castle, in Davron Crespières, near Paris, purchased in 1995, a sixteenth-century residence with an adjoining park of over 120 hectares;
the nineteenth-century palace in Holland Park in London, in whose hall there are the five paintings by Pablo Picasso that are part of the designer's collection;
the NY penthouse on Park Avenue and the Chalet Gifferhorn, the designer's winter home in Gstaad;
a beautiful yacht.
"Valentino has not given interviews lately - explains Daniela Gardina on the phone with ANSA - to avoid contacts, but also to avoid creating dangerous gatherings. He will nevertheless be happy to celebrate his birthday with his entourage of all time. We remember the time with pleasure. of oceanic events, but that way of celebrating no longer exists carried away by the pandemic ".
But perhaps even that glamorous world so loved by Valentino Clemente does not exist anymore Ludovico Garavani, aka Valentino, born in Voghera on 11 May 1932, creator in the 1960s of the luxury brand of the same name in Rome, first based in via Condotti and then in the iconic atelier in Piazza Mignanelli.
Soon frequented by the ladies of the international jet set, and now directed by Pierpaolo Piccioli.
Soon frequented by the ladies of the international jet set, and now directed by Pierpaolo Piccioli.
The Eternal City has always been the seat of Valentino's "heart", despite having chosen Paris to show with pret a porter since 1975 and with haute couture since 1988. Rome, a milestone, with respect to the changes in ownership of the brand, sold in 1998 to the German company HDP, taken over in 2002 by the Marzotto Group, passed to the Permira fund and finally in 2007, to the wife of the Emir of Qatar, the powerful Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned, second of Hamad's three wives bin Khalifa.
However, it seemed that Valentino never stopped doing his work as a stylist.
"He designs clothes even at night" confided Giammetti in 2007,
while at a breakfast for a few journalists in their penthouse in via dei Condotti, the couple revealed everything about the 45-year celebrations they had planned to have in Rome.
Her fashion farewell to Rome lasted three days, with a thousand and one nights party.
The most glamorous event ever planned in the fashion world.
Princes and princesses, Hollywood divas and heads of state were invited, who attended a retrospective of archival clothing at the Ara Pacis, an all-pink high fashion show in the S. Spirito in Sassia complex, a gala among the columns of the Temple of Venus, never granted before, with the Colosseum in the background and the Oscar winner Dante Ferretti in charge of the scenography.
Finally, at a gala with dance and live concert by Annie Lennox in a Chinese pagoda in gold,
black and red (his favorite color, a cross between carmine, purple and cadmium) set up in the Parco dei Daini, in the heart of Villa Borghese.
A thousand guests danced there until dawn.
Valentino was surrounded by Caroline of Monaco, Claudia Schiffer, Mick Jagger and other celebrities.
A colossal party that made him fully deserve the nickname of the 'Last Emperor' of fashion.
The same epithet that later gave the title to the docu-film, The Last Emperor, directed by director Matt Tyrnauer, a film on the designer's last two years of activity, shot between catwalks, back stages and interviews.
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Claudia Schiffer, Mick Jagger and other celebrities.
A colossal party that made him fully deserve the nickname of the 'Last Emperor' of fashion.
The same epithet that later gave the title to the docu-film, The Last Emperor, directed by director Matt Tyrnauer, a film on the designer's last two years of activity, shot between catwalks, back stages and interviews.
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Claudia Schiffer, Mick Jagger and other celebrities.
A colossal party that made him fully deserve the nickname of the 'Last Emperor' of fashion.
The same epithet that later gave the title to the docu-film, The Last Emperor, directed by director Matt Tyrnauer, a film on the designer's last two years of activity, shot between catwalks, back stages and interviews.
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