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Calculated Shard: 42 (from laksa017)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa042.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical, ml_categories_json AS ml_categories_json, ml_types_json AS ml_types_json, ml_intent_types_json AS ml_intent_types_json, meta_language AS meta_language, attrs_author AS attrs_author, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_publish_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_original_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_original_publish_time, ifNull(attrs_is_republished, 0) AS attrs_is_republished, ifNull(attrs_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_nr_words, ifNull(attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, ifNull(body_ext_links_number, 0) AS body_ext_links_number, ifNull(body_int_links_number, 0) AS body_int_links_number, ifNull(meta_nofollow, 0) AS meta_nofollow, ifNull(meta_noarchive, 0) AS meta_noarchive, ifNull(props_was_rendered, 0) AS props_was_rendered, ifNull(src_redirect, \'\') AS src_redirect, ifNull(download_time_msec, 0) AS download_time_msec, ifNull(download_ttfb_msec, 0) AS download_ttfb_msec, ifNull(download_size, 0) AS download_size FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/valentino-italian-fashion-dies-rcna254824\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/valentino-italian-fashion-dies-rcna254824\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/business-news\/valentino-italian-fashion-dies-rcna254824","crawl_time":1776269341,"first_indexed_time":1768847761,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nbcnews!www,\/business\/business-news\/valentino-italian-fashion-dies-rcna254824 s443","src_root_hash":"3867714919315588842","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Valentino, founder of Italian luxury empire, dies at 93","meta_descriptions":["Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died, his foundation said Monday."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Jan. 19, 2026, 5:19 PM UTC\n \/ \nUpdated Jan. 19, 2026, 6:19 PM UTC\n\/ Source:\nReuters\nROME — Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died, his foundation said Monday.\nUsually known only by his first name, Valentino was 93, and had\nretired in 2008\n.\nFounder of the eponymous brand, Valentino scaled the heights of haute couture, created a business empire and introduced a new color to the fashion world, the \"Valentino Red.\"\n\"Valentino Garavani passed away today at his Roman residence, surrounded by his loved ones,\" the foundation said on Instagram.\nHe will lie in state Wednesday and Thursday, while the funeral will take place in Rome on Friday, it added.\nIra de Fürstenberg, president of Valentino Parfums, alongside Valentino Garavani in his perfume laboratory in 1978.\nAlain Dejean \/ Getty Images file\nValentino was ranked alongside Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld as the last of the great designers from an era before fashion became a global, highly commercial industry run as much by accountants and marketing executives as the couturiers.\nLagerfeld died\nin 2019, while\nArmani died in September.\nValentino was adored by generations of royals, first ladies and movie stars, from Jackie Kennedy Onassis to Julia Roberts and Queen Rania of Jordan, who swore the designer always made them look and feel their best.\n“I know what women want,” he once remarked. “They want to be beautiful.”\nItalian fashion designer Valentino.\nAndrea Blanch \/ Getty Images file\nNever one for edginess or statement dressing, Valentino made precious few fashion faux-pas throughout his nearly half-century-long career, which stretched from his early days in Rome in the 1960s through to his retirement in 2008.\nHis fail-safe designs made Valentino the king of the red carpet, the go-to man for A-listers’ awards ceremony needs.\nHis sumptuous gowns have graced countless Academy Awards, notably in 2001, when Roberts wore a vintage black and white column to accept her best actress statue. Cate Blanchett also wore Valentino — a one-shouldered number in butter-yellow silk — when she won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 2004.\nValentino and a group of models in his designs during a fashion show in Paris in 1993.\nGamma-Rapho via Getty Images file\nValentino was also behind the long-sleeved lace dress Jacqueline Kennedy wore for her wedding to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1968. Kennedy and Valentino were close friends for decades, and for a spell, the one-time U.S. first lady wore almost exclusively Valentino.\nHe was also close to Diana, Princess of Wales, who often donned his sumptuous gowns.\nBeyond his signature orange-tinged shade of red, other Valentino trademarks included bows, ruffles, lace and embroidery; in short, feminine, flirty embellishments that added to the dresses’ beauty and hence to that of the wearers.\nPerpetually tanned and always impeccably dressed, Valentino shared the lifestyle of his jet-set patrons. In addition to his 152-foot yacht and an art collection including works by Picasso and Miro, the couturier owned a 17th-century chateau near Paris with a garden said to boast more than a million roses.\nValentino inside the Ara Pacis in Rome during the opening of his commemorative exhibition in 2007.\nStephane Cardinale \/ Corbis via Getty Images file\nValentino and his longtime partner Giancarlo Giammetti flitted among their homes — which also included places in New York, London, Rome, Capri and Gstaad, Switzerland — traveling with their pack of pugs. The pair regularly received A-list friends and patrons, including Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow.\n“When I see somebody and unfortunately she’s relaxed and running around in jogging trousers and without any makeup ... I feel very sorry,” the designer told RTL television in a 2007 interview. “For me, woman is like a beautiful, beautiful flower bouquet. She has always to be sensational, always to please, always to be perfect, always to please the husband, the lover, everybody. Because we are born to show ourselves always at our best.”\nValentino was born into a well-off family in the northern Italian town of Voghera on May 11, 1932. He said it was his childhood love of cinema that set him down the fashion path.\n“I was crazy for silver screen, I was crazy for beauty, to see all those movie stars being sensation, well dressed, being always perfect,” he explained in the 2007 television interview.\nAfter studying fashion in Milan and Paris, he spent much of the 1950s working for established Paris-based designer Jean Desses and later Guy Laroche before striking out on his own. He founded the house of Valentino on Rome’s Via Condotti in 1959.\nFrom the beginning, Giammetti was by his side, handling the business aspect while Valentino used his natural charm to build a client base among the world’s rich and fabulous.\nAfter some early financial setbacks — Valentino’s tastes were always lavish, and the company spent with abandon — the brand took off.\nValentino and Sophia Loren in New York City in 1992.\nRon Galella \/ Getty Images file\nEarly fans included Italian screen sirens Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, as well as Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. Legendary American Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland also took the young designer under her wing.\nOver the years, Valentino’s empire expanded as the designer added ready-to-wear, menswear and accessories lines to his stable. Valentino and Giammetti sold the label to an Italian holding company for an estimated $300 million in 1998. Valentino would remain in a design role for another decade.\nIn 2007, the couturier feted his 45th anniversary in fashion with a 3-day-long blowout in Rome, capped with a grand ball in the Villa Borghese gallery.\nValentino retired in 2008 and was briefly replaced by fellow Italian Alessandra Facchinetti, who had stepped into Tom Ford’s shoes at Gucci before being sacked after two seasons.\nFacchinetti’s tenure at Valentino proved equally short. As early as her first show for the label, rumors swirled that she was already on her way out, and just about one year after she was hired, Facchinetti was indeed replaced by two longtime accessories designers at the brand, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli.\nChiuri left to helm Dior in 2016, and Piccioli continued to lead the house through a golden period that drew on the launch of the Rockstud pump with Chiuri and his own signature color, a shade of fuchsia called Pink PP. He left the house in 2024, later joining Balenciaga, and has been replaced by Alessandro Michele, who revived Gucci’s stars with romantic, genderless styles.\nValentino at Paris Fashion Week in 2019.\nEdward Berthelot \/ Getty Images file\nValentino is owned by Qatar’s Mayhoola, which controls a 70% stake, and the French luxury conglomerate Kering, which owns 30% with an option to take full control in 2028 or 2029. Richard Bellini was named CEO last September.\nValentino has been the subject of several retrospectives, including one at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, which is housed in a wing of Paris’ Louvre Museum. He was also the subject of a hit 2008 documentary, “Valentino: The Last Emperor,” that chronicled the end of his career in fashion.\nIn 2011, Valentino and Giammetti launched what they called a “virtual museum,” a free desktop application that allows viewers to feast their eyes on about 300 of the designer’s iconic pieces.","attrs_markdown":"IE 11 is not supported. 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to read this story ad-free\n\nGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.\n\n![arrow](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/rockcms\/2026-01\/arrow-f55fa5.svg)\n\nUsually known only by his first name, Valentino was 93, and had [retired in 2008](https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/all?search=all%3AL23315582&linkedFromStory=true).\n\nFounder of the eponymous brand, Valentino scaled the heights of haute couture, created a business empire and introduced a new color to the fashion world, the \"Valentino Red.\"\n\n\"Valentino Garavani passed away today at his Roman residence, surrounded by his loved ones,\" the foundation said on Instagram.\n\nHe will lie in state Wednesday and Thursday, while the funeral will take place in Rome on Friday, it added.\n\n![La Princesse Ira de Furstenberg et Valentino](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-2-rs-80d508.jpg)\n\nIra de Fürstenberg, president of Valentino Parfums, alongside Valentino Garavani in his perfume laboratory in 1978.Alain Dejean \/ Getty Images file\n\nValentino was ranked alongside Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld as the last of the great designers from an era before fashion became a global, highly commercial industry run as much by accountants and marketing executives as the couturiers.\n\n[Lagerfeld died](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/iconic-fashion-designer-karl-lagerfeld-dies-85-n972971) in 2019, while [Armani died in September.](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/obituaries\/giorgio-armani-italian-fashion-designer-dies-91-rcna229042)\n\nValentino was adored by generations of royals, first ladies and movie stars, from Jackie Kennedy Onassis to Julia Roberts and Queen Rania of Jordan, who swore the designer always made them look and feel their best.\n\n“I know what women want,” he once remarked. “They want to be beautiful.”\n\n![Portrait Of Valentino](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-rs-650a33.jpg)\n\nItalian fashion designer Valentino.Andrea Blanch \/ Getty Images file\n\nNever one for edginess or statement dressing, Valentino made precious few fashion faux-pas throughout his nearly half-century-long career, which stretched from his early days in Rome in the 1960s through to his retirement in 2008.\n\nHis fail-safe designs made Valentino the king of the red carpet, the go-to man for A-listers’ awards ceremony needs.\n\nHis sumptuous gowns have graced countless Academy Awards, notably in 2001, when Roberts wore a vintage black and white column to accept her best actress statue. Cate Blanchett also wore Valentino — a one-shouldered number in butter-yellow silk — when she won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 2004.\n\n![Défilé Valentino, Haute-Couture, Automne-Hiver 1993\/94](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-3-rs-b7c764.jpg)\n\nValentino and a group of models in his designs during a fashion show in Paris in 1993.Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images file\n\nValentino was also behind the long-sleeved lace dress Jacqueline Kennedy wore for her wedding to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1968. Kennedy and Valentino were close friends for decades, and for a spell, the one-time U.S. first lady wore almost exclusively Valentino.\n\nHe was also close to Diana, Princess of Wales, who often donned his sumptuous gowns.\n\nBeyond his signature orange-tinged shade of red, other Valentino trademarks included bows, ruffles, lace and embroidery; in short, feminine, flirty embellishments that added to the dresses’ beauty and hence to that of the wearers.\n\nPerpetually tanned and always impeccably dressed, Valentino shared the lifestyle of his jet-set patrons. In addition to his 152-foot yacht and an art collection including works by Picasso and Miro, the couturier owned a 17th-century chateau near Paris with a garden said to boast more than a million roses.\n\n![Italy - Valentino 45th Anniversary - Ara Pacis Exhibition](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-6-rs-d4448e.jpg)\n\nValentino inside the Ara Pacis in Rome during the opening of his commemorative exhibition in 2007.Stephane Cardinale \/ Corbis via Getty Images file\n\nValentino and his longtime partner Giancarlo Giammetti flitted among their homes — which also included places in New York, London, Rome, Capri and Gstaad, Switzerland — traveling with their pack of pugs. The pair regularly received A-list friends and patrons, including Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow.\n\n“When I see somebody and unfortunately she’s relaxed and running around in jogging trousers and without any makeup ... I feel very sorry,” the designer told RTL television in a 2007 interview. “For me, woman is like a beautiful, beautiful flower bouquet. She has always to be sensational, always to please, always to be perfect, always to please the husband, the lover, everybody. Because we are born to show ourselves always at our best.”\n\nValentino was born into a well-off family in the northern Italian town of Voghera on May 11, 1932. He said it was his childhood love of cinema that set him down the fashion path.\n\n“I was crazy for silver screen, I was crazy for beauty, to see all those movie stars being sensation, well dressed, being always perfect,” he explained in the 2007 television interview.\n\nAfter studying fashion in Milan and Paris, he spent much of the 1950s working for established Paris-based designer Jean Desses and later Guy Laroche before striking out on his own. He founded the house of Valentino on Rome’s Via Condotti in 1959.\n\nFrom the beginning, Giammetti was by his side, handling the business aspect while Valentino used his natural charm to build a client base among the world’s rich and fabulous.\n\nAfter some early financial setbacks — Valentino’s tastes were always lavish, and the company spent with abandon — the brand took off.\n\n![\"Valentino : Thirty Years of Magic\" Gala Retrospective](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-5-rs-ad1dc1.jpg)\n\nValentino and Sophia Loren in New York City in 1992.Ron Galella \/ Getty Images file\n\nEarly fans included Italian screen sirens Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, as well as Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. Legendary American Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland also took the young designer under her wing.\n\nOver the years, Valentino’s empire expanded as the designer added ready-to-wear, menswear and accessories lines to his stable. Valentino and Giammetti sold the label to an Italian holding company for an estimated \\$300 million in 1998. Valentino would remain in a design role for another decade.\n\nIn 2007, the couturier feted his 45th anniversary in fashion with a 3-day-long blowout in Rome, capped with a grand ball in the Villa Borghese gallery.\n\nValentino retired in 2008 and was briefly replaced by fellow Italian Alessandra Facchinetti, who had stepped into Tom Ford’s shoes at Gucci before being sacked after two seasons.\n\nFacchinetti’s tenure at Valentino proved equally short. As early as her first show for the label, rumors swirled that she was already on her way out, and just about one year after she was hired, Facchinetti was indeed replaced by two longtime accessories designers at the brand, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli.\n\nChiuri left to helm Dior in 2016, and Piccioli continued to lead the house through a golden period that drew on the launch of the Rockstud pump with Chiuri and his own signature color, a shade of fuchsia called Pink PP. He left the house in 2024, later joining Balenciaga, and has been replaced by Alessandro Michele, who revived Gucci’s stars with romantic, genderless styles.\n\n![Celebrity Sightings : Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2019\/20 : Day Four](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-4-rs-70462a.jpg)\n\nValentino at Paris Fashion Week in 2019.Edward Berthelot \/ Getty Images file\n\nValentino is owned by Qatar’s Mayhoola, which controls a 70% stake, and the French luxury conglomerate Kering, which owns 30% with an option to take full control in 2028 or 2029. Richard Bellini was named CEO last September.\n\nValentino has been the subject of several retrospectives, including one at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, which is housed in a wing of Paris’ Louvre Museum. He was also the subject of a hit 2008 documentary, “Valentino: The Last Emperor,” that chronicled the end of his career in fashion.\n\nIn 2011, Valentino and Giammetti launched what they called a “virtual museum,” a free desktop application that allows viewers to feast their eyes on about 300 of the designer’s iconic pieces.\n\nShare\n\n[Add NBC News to Google](https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=nbcnews.com)\n\n![Save hover state](data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMjAiIGhlaWdodD0iMjAiIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCAyMCAyMCIgZmlsbD0ibm9uZSIgeG1sbnM9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnLzIwMDAvc3ZnIj4KPHBhdGggZD0iTTEwLjQyNzkgMTEuNjg4OUw5Ljk5MTcxIDExLjI2NzdMOS41NTM4OCAxMS42ODcyTDIuNTA1NDMgMTguNDM5N1YwLjYzMDQzNUgxNy40OTQ2VjE4LjUxMTlMMTAuNDI3OSAxMS42ODg5WiIgZmlsbD0iIzdDNEU5RiIgZmlsbC1vcGFjaXR5PSIwLjMiIHN0cm9rZT0iIzdDNEU5RiIgc3Ryb2tlLXdpZHRoPSIxLjI2MDg3Ii8+Cjwvc3ZnPgo=)Savewith a NBCUniversal Profile\n\n- [About](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/information\/nbc-news-info\/about-nbc-news-digital-n1232178)\n- [Contact](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/information\/nbc-news-info\/contact-us-n1232521)\n- [Help](https:\/\/nbcnews.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us)\n- [Careers](https:\/\/www.nbcunicareers.com\/)\n- [Ad Choices](https:\/\/www.nbcuniversalprivacy.com\/privacy\/cookies#accordionheader2)\n- [Privacy Policy](https:\/\/www.nbcuniversalprivacy.com\/privacy?intake=NBC_News)\n- [Your Privacy Choices](https:\/\/www.nbcuniversal.com\/privacy\/notrtoo\/?intake=NBC_News)\n- [CA Notice](https:\/\/www.nbcuniversalprivacy.com\/privacy\/california-consumer-privacy-act?intake=NBC_News)\n- [Terms of Service](https:\/\/www.nbcuniversal.com\/terms)\n- [NBC News Subscription Terms of Service](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/subscribe\/supplemental-terms)\n- [NBC News Sitemap](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/archive)\n- [Closed Captioning](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/information\/nbc-news-info\/closed-captioning-n1307063)\n- [Subscribe](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/subscribe)\n- [Advertise](https:\/\/together.nbcuni.com\/advertise\/?utm_source=nbc_news&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=property_ad_pages)\n- [NBC Select](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/select)\n\n© 2026 NBCUniversal Media, LLC","attrs_readable_markdown":"Jan. 19, 2026, 5:19 PM UTC \/ Updated Jan. 19, 2026, 6:19 PM UTC \/ Source: [Reuters](https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/)\n\nROME — Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died, his foundation said Monday.\n\nUsually known only by his first name, Valentino was 93, and had [retired in 2008](https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/all?search=all%3AL23315582&linkedFromStory=true).\n\nFounder of the eponymous brand, Valentino scaled the heights of haute couture, created a business empire and introduced a new color to the fashion world, the \"Valentino Red.\"\n\n\"Valentino Garavani passed away today at his Roman residence, surrounded by his loved ones,\" the foundation said on Instagram.\n\nHe will lie in state Wednesday and Thursday, while the funeral will take place in Rome on Friday, it added.\n\n![La Princesse Ira de Furstenberg et Valentino](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-2-rs-80d508.jpg)\n\nIra de Fürstenberg, president of Valentino Parfums, alongside Valentino Garavani in his perfume laboratory in 1978.Alain Dejean \/ Getty Images file\n\nValentino was ranked alongside Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld as the last of the great designers from an era before fashion became a global, highly commercial industry run as much by accountants and marketing executives as the couturiers.\n\n[Lagerfeld died](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/pop-culture-news\/iconic-fashion-designer-karl-lagerfeld-dies-85-n972971) in 2019, while [Armani died in September.](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/obituaries\/giorgio-armani-italian-fashion-designer-dies-91-rcna229042)\n\nValentino was adored by generations of royals, first ladies and movie stars, from Jackie Kennedy Onassis to Julia Roberts and Queen Rania of Jordan, who swore the designer always made them look and feel their best.\n\n“I know what women want,” he once remarked. “They want to be beautiful.”\n\n![Portrait Of Valentino](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-rs-650a33.jpg)\n\nItalian fashion designer Valentino.Andrea Blanch \/ Getty Images file\n\nNever one for edginess or statement dressing, Valentino made precious few fashion faux-pas throughout his nearly half-century-long career, which stretched from his early days in Rome in the 1960s through to his retirement in 2008.\n\nHis fail-safe designs made Valentino the king of the red carpet, the go-to man for A-listers’ awards ceremony needs.\n\nHis sumptuous gowns have graced countless Academy Awards, notably in 2001, when Roberts wore a vintage black and white column to accept her best actress statue. Cate Blanchett also wore Valentino — a one-shouldered number in butter-yellow silk — when she won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 2004.\n\n![Défilé Valentino, Haute-Couture, Automne-Hiver 1993\/94](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-3-rs-b7c764.jpg)\n\nValentino and a group of models in his designs during a fashion show in Paris in 1993.Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images file\n\nValentino was also behind the long-sleeved lace dress Jacqueline Kennedy wore for her wedding to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1968. Kennedy and Valentino were close friends for decades, and for a spell, the one-time U.S. first lady wore almost exclusively Valentino.\n\nHe was also close to Diana, Princess of Wales, who often donned his sumptuous gowns.\n\nBeyond his signature orange-tinged shade of red, other Valentino trademarks included bows, ruffles, lace and embroidery; in short, feminine, flirty embellishments that added to the dresses’ beauty and hence to that of the wearers.\n\nPerpetually tanned and always impeccably dressed, Valentino shared the lifestyle of his jet-set patrons. In addition to his 152-foot yacht and an art collection including works by Picasso and Miro, the couturier owned a 17th-century chateau near Paris with a garden said to boast more than a million roses.\n\n![Italy - Valentino 45th Anniversary - Ara Pacis Exhibition](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-6-rs-d4448e.jpg)\n\nValentino inside the Ara Pacis in Rome during the opening of his commemorative exhibition in 2007.Stephane Cardinale \/ Corbis via Getty Images file\n\nValentino and his longtime partner Giancarlo Giammetti flitted among their homes — which also included places in New York, London, Rome, Capri and Gstaad, Switzerland — traveling with their pack of pugs. The pair regularly received A-list friends and patrons, including Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow.\n\n“When I see somebody and unfortunately she’s relaxed and running around in jogging trousers and without any makeup ... I feel very sorry,” the designer told RTL television in a 2007 interview. “For me, woman is like a beautiful, beautiful flower bouquet. She has always to be sensational, always to please, always to be perfect, always to please the husband, the lover, everybody. Because we are born to show ourselves always at our best.”\n\nValentino was born into a well-off family in the northern Italian town of Voghera on May 11, 1932. He said it was his childhood love of cinema that set him down the fashion path.\n\n“I was crazy for silver screen, I was crazy for beauty, to see all those movie stars being sensation, well dressed, being always perfect,” he explained in the 2007 television interview.\n\nAfter studying fashion in Milan and Paris, he spent much of the 1950s working for established Paris-based designer Jean Desses and later Guy Laroche before striking out on his own. He founded the house of Valentino on Rome’s Via Condotti in 1959.\n\nFrom the beginning, Giammetti was by his side, handling the business aspect while Valentino used his natural charm to build a client base among the world’s rich and fabulous.\n\nAfter some early financial setbacks — Valentino’s tastes were always lavish, and the company spent with abandon — the brand took off.\n\n![\"Valentino : Thirty Years of Magic\" Gala Retrospective](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-5-rs-ad1dc1.jpg)\n\nValentino and Sophia Loren in New York City in 1992.Ron Galella \/ Getty Images file\n\nEarly fans included Italian screen sirens Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, as well as Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. Legendary American Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland also took the young designer under her wing.\n\nOver the years, Valentino’s empire expanded as the designer added ready-to-wear, menswear and accessories lines to his stable. Valentino and Giammetti sold the label to an Italian holding company for an estimated \\$300 million in 1998. Valentino would remain in a design role for another decade.\n\nIn 2007, the couturier feted his 45th anniversary in fashion with a 3-day-long blowout in Rome, capped with a grand ball in the Villa Borghese gallery.\n\nValentino retired in 2008 and was briefly replaced by fellow Italian Alessandra Facchinetti, who had stepped into Tom Ford’s shoes at Gucci before being sacked after two seasons.\n\nFacchinetti’s tenure at Valentino proved equally short. As early as her first show for the label, rumors swirled that she was already on her way out, and just about one year after she was hired, Facchinetti was indeed replaced by two longtime accessories designers at the brand, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli.\n\nChiuri left to helm Dior in 2016, and Piccioli continued to lead the house through a golden period that drew on the launch of the Rockstud pump with Chiuri and his own signature color, a shade of fuchsia called Pink PP. He left the house in 2024, later joining Balenciaga, and has been replaced by Alessandro Michele, who revived Gucci’s stars with romantic, genderless styles.\n\n![Celebrity Sightings : Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2019\/20 : Day Four](https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-11\/251112-valentino-4-rs-70462a.jpg)\n\nValentino at Paris Fashion Week in 2019.Edward Berthelot \/ Getty Images file\n\nValentino is owned by Qatar’s Mayhoola, which controls a 70% stake, and the French luxury conglomerate Kering, which owns 30% with an option to take full control in 2028 or 2029. Richard Bellini was named CEO last September.\n\nValentino has been the subject of several retrospectives, including one at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, which is housed in a wing of Paris’ Louvre Museum. 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Jan. 19, 2026, 5:19 PM UTC / Updated Jan. 19, 2026, 6:19 PM UTC / Source: Reuters ROME — Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died, his foundation said Monday. Usually known only by his first name, Valentino was 93, and had retired in 2008 . Founder of the eponymous brand, Valentino scaled the heights of haute couture, created a business empire and introduced a new color to the fashion world, the "Valentino Red." "Valentino Garavani passed away today at his Roman residence, surrounded by his loved ones," the foundation said on Instagram. He will lie in state Wednesday and Thursday, while the funeral will take place in Rome on Friday, it added. Ira de Fürstenberg, president of Valentino Parfums, alongside Valentino Garavani in his perfume laboratory in 1978. Alain Dejean / Getty Images file Valentino was ranked alongside Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld as the last of the great designers from an era before fashion became a global, highly commercial industry run as much by accountants and marketing executives as the couturiers. Lagerfeld died in 2019, while Armani died in September. Valentino was adored by generations of royals, first ladies and movie stars, from Jackie Kennedy Onassis to Julia Roberts and Queen Rania of Jordan, who swore the designer always made them look and feel their best. “I know what women want,” he once remarked. “They want to be beautiful.” Italian fashion designer Valentino. Andrea Blanch / Getty Images file Never one for edginess or statement dressing, Valentino made precious few fashion faux-pas throughout his nearly half-century-long career, which stretched from his early days in Rome in the 1960s through to his retirement in 2008. His fail-safe designs made Valentino the king of the red carpet, the go-to man for A-listers’ awards ceremony needs. His sumptuous gowns have graced countless Academy Awards, notably in 2001, when Roberts wore a vintage black and white column to accept her best actress statue. Cate Blanchett also wore Valentino — a one-shouldered number in butter-yellow silk — when she won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 2004. Valentino and a group of models in his designs during a fashion show in Paris in 1993. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images file Valentino was also behind the long-sleeved lace dress Jacqueline Kennedy wore for her wedding to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1968. Kennedy and Valentino were close friends for decades, and for a spell, the one-time U.S. first lady wore almost exclusively Valentino. He was also close to Diana, Princess of Wales, who often donned his sumptuous gowns. Beyond his signature orange-tinged shade of red, other Valentino trademarks included bows, ruffles, lace and embroidery; in short, feminine, flirty embellishments that added to the dresses’ beauty and hence to that of the wearers. Perpetually tanned and always impeccably dressed, Valentino shared the lifestyle of his jet-set patrons. In addition to his 152-foot yacht and an art collection including works by Picasso and Miro, the couturier owned a 17th-century chateau near Paris with a garden said to boast more than a million roses. Valentino inside the Ara Pacis in Rome during the opening of his commemorative exhibition in 2007. Stephane Cardinale / Corbis via Getty Images file Valentino and his longtime partner Giancarlo Giammetti flitted among their homes — which also included places in New York, London, Rome, Capri and Gstaad, Switzerland — traveling with their pack of pugs. The pair regularly received A-list friends and patrons, including Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. “When I see somebody and unfortunately she’s relaxed and running around in jogging trousers and without any makeup ... I feel very sorry,” the designer told RTL television in a 2007 interview. “For me, woman is like a beautiful, beautiful flower bouquet. She has always to be sensational, always to please, always to be perfect, always to please the husband, the lover, everybody. Because we are born to show ourselves always at our best.” Valentino was born into a well-off family in the northern Italian town of Voghera on May 11, 1932. He said it was his childhood love of cinema that set him down the fashion path. “I was crazy for silver screen, I was crazy for beauty, to see all those movie stars being sensation, well dressed, being always perfect,” he explained in the 2007 television interview. After studying fashion in Milan and Paris, he spent much of the 1950s working for established Paris-based designer Jean Desses and later Guy Laroche before striking out on his own. He founded the house of Valentino on Rome’s Via Condotti in 1959. From the beginning, Giammetti was by his side, handling the business aspect while Valentino used his natural charm to build a client base among the world’s rich and fabulous. After some early financial setbacks — Valentino’s tastes were always lavish, and the company spent with abandon — the brand took off. Valentino and Sophia Loren in New York City in 1992. Ron Galella / Getty Images file Early fans included Italian screen sirens Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, as well as Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. Legendary American Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland also took the young designer under her wing. Over the years, Valentino’s empire expanded as the designer added ready-to-wear, menswear and accessories lines to his stable. Valentino and Giammetti sold the label to an Italian holding company for an estimated $300 million in 1998. Valentino would remain in a design role for another decade. In 2007, the couturier feted his 45th anniversary in fashion with a 3-day-long blowout in Rome, capped with a grand ball in the Villa Borghese gallery. Valentino retired in 2008 and was briefly replaced by fellow Italian Alessandra Facchinetti, who had stepped into Tom Ford’s shoes at Gucci before being sacked after two seasons. Facchinetti’s tenure at Valentino proved equally short. As early as her first show for the label, rumors swirled that she was already on her way out, and just about one year after she was hired, Facchinetti was indeed replaced by two longtime accessories designers at the brand, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. Chiuri left to helm Dior in 2016, and Piccioli continued to lead the house through a golden period that drew on the launch of the Rockstud pump with Chiuri and his own signature color, a shade of fuchsia called Pink PP. He left the house in 2024, later joining Balenciaga, and has been replaced by Alessandro Michele, who revived Gucci’s stars with romantic, genderless styles. Valentino at Paris Fashion Week in 2019. Edward Berthelot / Getty Images file Valentino is owned by Qatar’s Mayhoola, which controls a 70% stake, and the French luxury conglomerate Kering, which owns 30% with an option to take full control in 2028 or 2029. Richard Bellini was named CEO last September. Valentino has been the subject of several retrospectives, including one at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, which is housed in a wing of Paris’ Louvre Museum. He was also the subject of a hit 2008 documentary, “Valentino: The Last Emperor,” that chronicled the end of his career in fashion. In 2011, Valentino and Giammetti launched what they called a “virtual museum,” a free desktop application that allows viewers to feast their eyes on about 300 of the designer’s iconic pieces.

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Founder of the eponymous brand, Valentino scaled the heights of haute couture, created a business empire and introduced a new color to the fashion world, the "Valentino Red." "Valentino Garavani passed away today at his Roman residence, surrounded by his loved ones," the foundation said on Instagram. He will lie in state Wednesday and Thursday, while the funeral will take place in Rome on Friday, it added. ![La Princesse Ira de Furstenberg et Valentino](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-2-rs-80d508.jpg) Ira de Fürstenberg, president of Valentino Parfums, alongside Valentino Garavani in his perfume laboratory in 1978.Alain Dejean / Getty Images file Valentino was ranked alongside Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld as the last of the great designers from an era before fashion became a global, highly commercial industry run as much by accountants and marketing executives as the couturiers. [Lagerfeld died](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/iconic-fashion-designer-karl-lagerfeld-dies-85-n972971) in 2019, while [Armani died in September.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/giorgio-armani-italian-fashion-designer-dies-91-rcna229042) Valentino was adored by generations of royals, first ladies and movie stars, from Jackie Kennedy Onassis to Julia Roberts and Queen Rania of Jordan, who swore the designer always made them look and feel their best. “I know what women want,” he once remarked. “They want to be beautiful.” ![Portrait Of Valentino](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-rs-650a33.jpg) Italian fashion designer Valentino.Andrea Blanch / Getty Images file Never one for edginess or statement dressing, Valentino made precious few fashion faux-pas throughout his nearly half-century-long career, which stretched from his early days in Rome in the 1960s through to his retirement in 2008. His fail-safe designs made Valentino the king of the red carpet, the go-to man for A-listers’ awards ceremony needs. His sumptuous gowns have graced countless Academy Awards, notably in 2001, when Roberts wore a vintage black and white column to accept her best actress statue. Cate Blanchett also wore Valentino — a one-shouldered number in butter-yellow silk — when she won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 2004. ![Défilé Valentino, Haute-Couture, Automne-Hiver 1993/94](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-3-rs-b7c764.jpg) Valentino and a group of models in his designs during a fashion show in Paris in 1993.Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images file Valentino was also behind the long-sleeved lace dress Jacqueline Kennedy wore for her wedding to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1968. Kennedy and Valentino were close friends for decades, and for a spell, the one-time U.S. first lady wore almost exclusively Valentino. He was also close to Diana, Princess of Wales, who often donned his sumptuous gowns. Beyond his signature orange-tinged shade of red, other Valentino trademarks included bows, ruffles, lace and embroidery; in short, feminine, flirty embellishments that added to the dresses’ beauty and hence to that of the wearers. Perpetually tanned and always impeccably dressed, Valentino shared the lifestyle of his jet-set patrons. In addition to his 152-foot yacht and an art collection including works by Picasso and Miro, the couturier owned a 17th-century chateau near Paris with a garden said to boast more than a million roses. ![Italy - Valentino 45th Anniversary - Ara Pacis Exhibition](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-6-rs-d4448e.jpg) Valentino inside the Ara Pacis in Rome during the opening of his commemorative exhibition in 2007.Stephane Cardinale / Corbis via Getty Images file Valentino and his longtime partner Giancarlo Giammetti flitted among their homes — which also included places in New York, London, Rome, Capri and Gstaad, Switzerland — traveling with their pack of pugs. The pair regularly received A-list friends and patrons, including Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. “When I see somebody and unfortunately she’s relaxed and running around in jogging trousers and without any makeup ... I feel very sorry,” the designer told RTL television in a 2007 interview. “For me, woman is like a beautiful, beautiful flower bouquet. She has always to be sensational, always to please, always to be perfect, always to please the husband, the lover, everybody. Because we are born to show ourselves always at our best.” Valentino was born into a well-off family in the northern Italian town of Voghera on May 11, 1932. He said it was his childhood love of cinema that set him down the fashion path. “I was crazy for silver screen, I was crazy for beauty, to see all those movie stars being sensation, well dressed, being always perfect,” he explained in the 2007 television interview. After studying fashion in Milan and Paris, he spent much of the 1950s working for established Paris-based designer Jean Desses and later Guy Laroche before striking out on his own. He founded the house of Valentino on Rome’s Via Condotti in 1959. From the beginning, Giammetti was by his side, handling the business aspect while Valentino used his natural charm to build a client base among the world’s rich and fabulous. After some early financial setbacks — Valentino’s tastes were always lavish, and the company spent with abandon — the brand took off. !["Valentino : Thirty Years of Magic" Gala Retrospective](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-5-rs-ad1dc1.jpg) Valentino and Sophia Loren in New York City in 1992.Ron Galella / Getty Images file Early fans included Italian screen sirens Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, as well as Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. Legendary American Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland also took the young designer under her wing. Over the years, Valentino’s empire expanded as the designer added ready-to-wear, menswear and accessories lines to his stable. Valentino and Giammetti sold the label to an Italian holding company for an estimated \$300 million in 1998. Valentino would remain in a design role for another decade. In 2007, the couturier feted his 45th anniversary in fashion with a 3-day-long blowout in Rome, capped with a grand ball in the Villa Borghese gallery. Valentino retired in 2008 and was briefly replaced by fellow Italian Alessandra Facchinetti, who had stepped into Tom Ford’s shoes at Gucci before being sacked after two seasons. Facchinetti’s tenure at Valentino proved equally short. As early as her first show for the label, rumors swirled that she was already on her way out, and just about one year after she was hired, Facchinetti was indeed replaced by two longtime accessories designers at the brand, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. Chiuri left to helm Dior in 2016, and Piccioli continued to lead the house through a golden period that drew on the launch of the Rockstud pump with Chiuri and his own signature color, a shade of fuchsia called Pink PP. He left the house in 2024, later joining Balenciaga, and has been replaced by Alessandro Michele, who revived Gucci’s stars with romantic, genderless styles. ![Celebrity Sightings : Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2019/20 : Day Four](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-4-rs-70462a.jpg) Valentino at Paris Fashion Week in 2019.Edward Berthelot / Getty Images file Valentino is owned by Qatar’s Mayhoola, which controls a 70% stake, and the French luxury conglomerate Kering, which owns 30% with an option to take full control in 2028 or 2029. Richard Bellini was named CEO last September. Valentino has been the subject of several retrospectives, including one at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, which is housed in a wing of Paris’ Louvre Museum. He was also the subject of a hit 2008 documentary, “Valentino: The Last Emperor,” that chronicled the end of his career in fashion. In 2011, Valentino and Giammetti launched what they called a “virtual museum,” a free desktop application that allows viewers to feast their eyes on about 300 of the designer’s iconic pieces. 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Jan. 19, 2026, 5:19 PM UTC / Updated Jan. 19, 2026, 6:19 PM UTC / Source: [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/) ROME — Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died, his foundation said Monday. Usually known only by his first name, Valentino was 93, and had [retired in 2008](https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?search=all%3AL23315582&linkedFromStory=true). Founder of the eponymous brand, Valentino scaled the heights of haute couture, created a business empire and introduced a new color to the fashion world, the "Valentino Red." "Valentino Garavani passed away today at his Roman residence, surrounded by his loved ones," the foundation said on Instagram. He will lie in state Wednesday and Thursday, while the funeral will take place in Rome on Friday, it added. ![La Princesse Ira de Furstenberg et Valentino](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-2-rs-80d508.jpg) Ira de Fürstenberg, president of Valentino Parfums, alongside Valentino Garavani in his perfume laboratory in 1978.Alain Dejean / Getty Images file Valentino was ranked alongside Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld as the last of the great designers from an era before fashion became a global, highly commercial industry run as much by accountants and marketing executives as the couturiers. [Lagerfeld died](https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/iconic-fashion-designer-karl-lagerfeld-dies-85-n972971) in 2019, while [Armani died in September.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/giorgio-armani-italian-fashion-designer-dies-91-rcna229042) Valentino was adored by generations of royals, first ladies and movie stars, from Jackie Kennedy Onassis to Julia Roberts and Queen Rania of Jordan, who swore the designer always made them look and feel their best. “I know what women want,” he once remarked. “They want to be beautiful.” ![Portrait Of Valentino](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-rs-650a33.jpg) Italian fashion designer Valentino.Andrea Blanch / Getty Images file Never one for edginess or statement dressing, Valentino made precious few fashion faux-pas throughout his nearly half-century-long career, which stretched from his early days in Rome in the 1960s through to his retirement in 2008. His fail-safe designs made Valentino the king of the red carpet, the go-to man for A-listers’ awards ceremony needs. His sumptuous gowns have graced countless Academy Awards, notably in 2001, when Roberts wore a vintage black and white column to accept her best actress statue. Cate Blanchett also wore Valentino — a one-shouldered number in butter-yellow silk — when she won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 2004. ![Défilé Valentino, Haute-Couture, Automne-Hiver 1993/94](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-3-rs-b7c764.jpg) Valentino and a group of models in his designs during a fashion show in Paris in 1993.Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images file Valentino was also behind the long-sleeved lace dress Jacqueline Kennedy wore for her wedding to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis in 1968. Kennedy and Valentino were close friends for decades, and for a spell, the one-time U.S. first lady wore almost exclusively Valentino. He was also close to Diana, Princess of Wales, who often donned his sumptuous gowns. Beyond his signature orange-tinged shade of red, other Valentino trademarks included bows, ruffles, lace and embroidery; in short, feminine, flirty embellishments that added to the dresses’ beauty and hence to that of the wearers. Perpetually tanned and always impeccably dressed, Valentino shared the lifestyle of his jet-set patrons. In addition to his 152-foot yacht and an art collection including works by Picasso and Miro, the couturier owned a 17th-century chateau near Paris with a garden said to boast more than a million roses. ![Italy - Valentino 45th Anniversary - Ara Pacis Exhibition](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-6-rs-d4448e.jpg) Valentino inside the Ara Pacis in Rome during the opening of his commemorative exhibition in 2007.Stephane Cardinale / Corbis via Getty Images file Valentino and his longtime partner Giancarlo Giammetti flitted among their homes — which also included places in New York, London, Rome, Capri and Gstaad, Switzerland — traveling with their pack of pugs. The pair regularly received A-list friends and patrons, including Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. “When I see somebody and unfortunately she’s relaxed and running around in jogging trousers and without any makeup ... I feel very sorry,” the designer told RTL television in a 2007 interview. “For me, woman is like a beautiful, beautiful flower bouquet. She has always to be sensational, always to please, always to be perfect, always to please the husband, the lover, everybody. Because we are born to show ourselves always at our best.” Valentino was born into a well-off family in the northern Italian town of Voghera on May 11, 1932. He said it was his childhood love of cinema that set him down the fashion path. “I was crazy for silver screen, I was crazy for beauty, to see all those movie stars being sensation, well dressed, being always perfect,” he explained in the 2007 television interview. After studying fashion in Milan and Paris, he spent much of the 1950s working for established Paris-based designer Jean Desses and later Guy Laroche before striking out on his own. He founded the house of Valentino on Rome’s Via Condotti in 1959. From the beginning, Giammetti was by his side, handling the business aspect while Valentino used his natural charm to build a client base among the world’s rich and fabulous. After some early financial setbacks — Valentino’s tastes were always lavish, and the company spent with abandon — the brand took off. !["Valentino : Thirty Years of Magic" Gala Retrospective](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-5-rs-ad1dc1.jpg) Valentino and Sophia Loren in New York City in 1992.Ron Galella / Getty Images file Early fans included Italian screen sirens Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, as well as Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. Legendary American Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland also took the young designer under her wing. Over the years, Valentino’s empire expanded as the designer added ready-to-wear, menswear and accessories lines to his stable. Valentino and Giammetti sold the label to an Italian holding company for an estimated \$300 million in 1998. Valentino would remain in a design role for another decade. In 2007, the couturier feted his 45th anniversary in fashion with a 3-day-long blowout in Rome, capped with a grand ball in the Villa Borghese gallery. Valentino retired in 2008 and was briefly replaced by fellow Italian Alessandra Facchinetti, who had stepped into Tom Ford’s shoes at Gucci before being sacked after two seasons. Facchinetti’s tenure at Valentino proved equally short. As early as her first show for the label, rumors swirled that she was already on her way out, and just about one year after she was hired, Facchinetti was indeed replaced by two longtime accessories designers at the brand, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. Chiuri left to helm Dior in 2016, and Piccioli continued to lead the house through a golden period that drew on the launch of the Rockstud pump with Chiuri and his own signature color, a shade of fuchsia called Pink PP. He left the house in 2024, later joining Balenciaga, and has been replaced by Alessandro Michele, who revived Gucci’s stars with romantic, genderless styles. ![Celebrity Sightings : Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2019/20 : Day Four](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251112-valentino-4-rs-70462a.jpg) Valentino at Paris Fashion Week in 2019.Edward Berthelot / Getty Images file Valentino is owned by Qatar’s Mayhoola, which controls a 70% stake, and the French luxury conglomerate Kering, which owns 30% with an option to take full control in 2028 or 2029. Richard Bellini was named CEO last September. Valentino has been the subject of several retrospectives, including one at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, which is housed in a wing of Paris’ Louvre Museum. He was also the subject of a hit 2008 documentary, “Valentino: The Last Emperor,” that chronicled the end of his career in fashion. In 2011, Valentino and Giammetti launched what they called a “virtual museum,” a free desktop application that allows viewers to feast their eyes on about 300 of the designer’s iconic pieces.

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