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Valentino garavani, the Master of Red, Has Died
Valentino Garavani, the iconic Italian fashion designer renowned for his glamorous creations and, above all, his signature “Valentino Red,” has died at the age of 90. Many celebrities have worn his creations and in particular his red dresses – the famous “Valentino Red,” his favorite color,a mixture of cadmium red,violet,carmine wiht a touch of orange. The color first appeared in the dress Fiesta, which he created for his first collection in 1959, and was famously worn by Jackie Kennedy Onassis on the cover of Life magazine in 1968.
“When a woman dressed in red Valentino arrives at a party, everyone looks at her”
It was in the late 1950s that Valentino developed his fascination with this red hue, which became his signature. This revelation occurred during a study trip to Barcelona where the aspiring fashion designer was invited to attend a performance of Carmen by Georges Bizet.
In an interview with Vogue magazine, Valentino Garavani confided: “I had one of the biggest shocks of my life in Barcelona: as a student, invited to the Opera Theater, amazed, I saw in a box a woman with gray hair, very stunning, dressed in red velvet. Among all the colors worn by the other women, she appeared unique to me, isolated in her splendor. I never forgot her. She became the red goddess. Fabulous. I believe that a woman dressed in red is always magnificent, she is in the middle of the crowd the perfect image of the heroine.”
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“Red is a color that cannot be forgotten. When a woman dressed in red valentino arrives at a party, everyone looks at her,” saeid the designer. A color present in all his collections until the final fashion show that he supervised in Paris in 2008, after which all the models paraded wearing the same dress… red.
Valentino Garavani passed away on February 20, 2024, in Rome. The funeral took place on February 23, 2024, at the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels and Martyrs, in Rome.
Philippe Gault
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