Ultimate guide the elegance Valentino fashion 2024: A Timeless Fashion Legacy

Smile: Valentino is an elegant fashion house.

Valentino is a famous luxury brand of fashion that is located in Italy, and is famous for its beautiful and ethereal collections of clothes for women. Born out of the fashion house of designer Valentino Garavani in 1960, the business partner being Giancarlo Giammetti , the house of Valentino has adorned many woman of class during the past sixty years.

Valentino’s early life and journey into stardom

The name of this company is Valentino Group and its founder is the man named Valentino Garavani . She starting appreciating fashion from childhood, and at seventeen she had designed her first costume. He then went and studied fashion design at the École des Beaux-Arts and Chamber Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in Paris.

After this he moved back to Italy and in the year 1959 opened his first couture house in Rome. In the next year, he started Valentino company where Giammetti was responsible for dealing with the finances.

The young designer was soon launched into the jet set society of the sixties, and such legends as Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor in his stylish red carpet gowns. In the following years Valentino developed his reputation and in 1962, he showed his first haute couture collection in Paris and a first pret-a-porter line in 1966.

In the show it insisted particularly on full-length gowns, capes and simple shift dresses which were enriched with lace and embroidery and rich fabrics.

Establishing an Iconic Brand in the 1970s and 1980s

In the next twenty years Valentino was launching various lines, but still continuing to occupy the top of high fashion. The Valentino fashion brand expanded beyond womenswear and incorporated menswear along with other relaxed styles such as blue jeans and blouses. Yet it was his fabulous evening gowns of the rich colors which helped him become an icon of the fashion world.

In the 1970s, Valentino gained more fame for so-called ‘jet set look’ as the fashion media described it, supplying elegant women all over the world with his sophisticated and sensual clothes, most notably with the famous flowing skirts, delicate prints and of course, the red color that became symbolic for Valentino.

He also made some of this clothing for members of international royalty, including princesses in the 1970 s and 80 s, including Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom and Queen Paola of Belgium.

Valentino left the pack of luxury-ready wear designers and became one of the pioneers of lifestyle luxury branding. For the house he started a ready-to-wear bridal collection in the ‘70s which became a plus of Yves Saint Laurent and also a line of fur coats.

Beginning in 1977, the first boutique established in Milan was designed to resemble an over-the-top formal parlor. Other Valentino boutiques appeared in other countries shortly after and were also furnished in kitschy Rococo style that was to become emblematic of Valentino.

Garavani’s Impact on Fashion and Final Bow in 2007

Valentino, who retired last year after more than five decades in fashion design, proved that the essence of luxury is possible. He was a master of the society dressing and red carpet, and his designs adorned some of the best dressed women across the globe including Princess Diana who wore black lace Valentino gown at a White House gala in 1981. Indeed, one can claim that Valentino has produced maybe the largest amount of memorable ball gown looks in the world.

However, the designer had a distinctly feminine orientation, which was nevertheless contained within the context of the specific gender and Valentino was also a master of male clothing, being one of the first representatives of Italian chic and the ability to transform formal business wear into comfortable fitted bespoke suits.

And in contrast to other designers, Valentino made sure he had full control over all his lines in order not to deviate from his signature style.

In 1998, Maria Grazia Chiuri the ready-to-wear designer, became a part of this house as Valentino’s partner. To commemorate 45 years of Valentino’s label, the designer launched a massive party in Rome with members of nobility, industry giants and most of his society patronesses and celebrity endorsers in attendance.

In July 2007, at the age of seventy-five, Valentino retired with the final collection of haute couture in Paris where the models presented clothes that the master created over the years for À° Audrey Hepburn and Jacqueline Onassis.

The final bow intrigued a standing ovation that went on for almost 15 minutes. Valentino’s retirement saw the company hand over the creative helm to Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli and continued his legacy.

The Valentino Garavani Legacy Today

The house of Valentino persists under the artistic direction of Piccioli; he took over the full responsibility of leading the company after Chiuiri moved to Dior. The couture atelier is still in Rome as well as managed by individuals who knew Valentino and collaborated with him for years.

In a way, Piccioli has added a contemporary aspect to the Valentino vision of fashion as a timeless art form that never loses its beauty, from studded masks due to Covid to those iconic romantic gowns.

Themes promoted by the designer are conveyed in terms of diversity and equality. There is also increased focus on such factors in today’s world such as supply chain transparency, and the use of recycled materials.

Apart from the fashion show, The vision and the aesthetics of Valentino are still present in the modern world with garments that can be seen on today’s It-girls including Zendaya and Lady Gaga.

A 2018 museum exhibition titled Valentino: Master of Couture provided a testimony to the fact that the maestro’s presence would continue to demand obeisance in the fashion world for a long time to come.

However the Valentino name has gone to new ownership and it is diversifying into new lifestyle products such as new accessories and hotels.

In terms of luxury, the empire Valentino constructed is still a reference to the ultimate level. Still day by day he pays attention to the details of his workmanship and the quality of the material that goes into the making of a fashion garment like no other fashion designer.

The master designer summed up his own legacy by saying: I know what women want, women want to be beautiful.  For more than fifty years, Valentino has been making women beautiful.