Elizabeth Taylor was one of his first customers and six decades later his dresses can still be seen on Hollywood’s red carpets: Valentino Garavani can look back on a stellar career. Whatever the Italian couturier touched turned into elegance. With the book “Valentino. A Grand Italian Epic”, Taschen Verlag traces his path from humble beginnings to his rise to fashion legend. Rare portraits and glimpses behind the scenes show both the fashion house and Valentino the man from a previously unseen perspective.
VALENTINO. A GRAND ITALIAN EPIC
Valentino – this name is synonymous with elegance and Italian luxury. But who is behind the Roman fashion house? It’s high time to dedicate a book to the fashion label founded in 1959 and its couturier. Drawings, archive images and documentary photographs, among other things, provide a detailed look at Valentino Garavani and the empire he created over the decades on well over 500 pages.Armando Chitolina (ed.), Suzy Menkes, Matt Tyrnauer, Valentino. “A Grand Italian Epic”, Taschen, 576 pages, approx. 100.
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