His name is Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, born in Voghera, Lombardy, northern Italy on 11th May 1932. He works with many lines his main lines are Valentino Gravani, R.E.D. Valentino, Valentino Roma, Valentino and he is owner of Valentino SpA company and brand.
He started to take intrest in fashion while he was a little boy. He learnt fashion designing under her aunt and a local designer. He then moved to Paris to quench his thirst more.
After five years, Valentino left Jean Desses under a cloud over an incident about prolonging a vacation in Saint-Tropezthat still makes him wriggle uncomfortably today. Rescued by his friend Guy Laroche, he joined his “tiny, tiny” fashion house. After discussions with his parents, he decided to return to Italy and set up in Rome in 1959. Where he started to work by his own name. After that every body know his success story.
His ready to wear collection for spring 2012 in market, main feature of his collection is net, lather, patch work and as usual he make fusion of different fabrics. Pinks, reds, whites and black are the colors he used in his collection, for his coming spring he introduce plain fabric less cuts and less embellishments.
Click on the thumbnails to see images from his collection.
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