Before retiring in 2008, master courtier Valentino Garavani created collections of striking beauty - none more so than his Spring 2001 haute couture show. Tim Blanks reminisces on the designer’s exquisite collection. Enjoy our new segment, Throwback Thursdays with Tim Blanks, Style.com editor-at-large, who this time shares his memories about Mr. Valentino.
“When I first started at fashion industry, first people I met was an incredibly gracious woman named Nan Kempner. She was one of the client who made New York such a magnet for couturies like Valentino,” Mr. Blanks describing his first interaction with couture world of fahion. “Valnetino was one of the old school couturiest. He created an entire wardrobe for women from suit to coats.”
Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani was Born in Voghera, Italy in 1932. After high school, he studied couture in Milan and Paris before becoming apprenticed to jean dress. In 1960, with the financial backing of his fathe, Valentino left Paris and opened a fashion house in Rome. In 1975 he branched out into ready-to-wear
Tim: “It’s a vision of another time in fashion and even a couture customers are coming back. Society is very very different.”
Valentino retired in January 2008 after his last haute couture collection in Paris.
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