Valentino Garavani (1932 - 2026): A fashion icon’s life in pictures
Looking back on the life and the world-class designs of fashion mogul Valentino Garavani.
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Left to right: Italian socialite and beauty expert Princess Luciana Pignatelli and Italian fashion designers Valentino Garavani and Princess Irene Galitzine arriving at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York, 15th September 1965. They are in New York for a charity fashion show at Alexander's department store. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Models wearing clothing from the Italian designer, Valentino, for Annabels of London in Berkeley Square on January 30, 1967. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Businessman Giancarlo Giammetti and designer Valentino Garavani at their apartment on New York's Upper East Side on September 11, 1977. (Photo by Darleen Rubin/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
Princess Soraya is greeted by Parisian designer Valentino as she arrives at Champs Elysees Theater to attend the premiere of Roland Petit new balled La Dame de Pique on October 17, 1978 (Bettmann Archive / Getty Images)
Valentino Garavani (C) attends a party at Studio 54 in New York City on November 20, 1978. (Photo by John Bright/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
Valentino and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis attend the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Exhibit "Hapsburg Era Fashions" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on December 3, 1979. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Brooke Shields, with Giovanni Valentino at a Valentino fashion show in Rome in 1981. (Vittoriano Rastelli/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Models in show finale of the Valentino Men's Fall 1990 Ready To Wear Runway Show. (Photo by Donato Sardella/Penske Media via Getty Images)
Designer Valentino Garavani takes a bow during the finale of the Valentino Spring 1990 Couture Collection Fashion Show. (Photo by Art Streiber/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
Italian fashion designer Valentino, whose real name is Valentino Garavani, and singer Roberto Murolo attend a party celebrating Valentino's 30-year career on May, 1991 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
Italian fashion designer Valentino, whose real name is Valentino Garavani, Ronn Moss and guest attend a party celebrating Valentino's 30-year career on May, 1991 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
(L-R) Valentino Garavani, Aretha Franklin and Clive Davis attend "Valentino: Thirty Years of Magic" Gala Retrospective at the 67th Street Armory in New York City on September 22, 1992. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Model Yasmeen Ghauri walks the runway in the Valentino Fall 1993 Couture Runway Show on July 21, 1993, in Paris, France. (Photo by Art Streiber/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
Italian fashion designer Valentino, whose real name is Valentino Garavani, and top models Naomi Campbell and Elle Macpherson attend the inauguration of a new Valentino's boutiques on September 14, 1995 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
Italian fashion designer Valentino, whose real name is Valentino Garavani, ant top model Naomi Campbell arrive at the party for the inauguration of three new Valentino's boutiques on September 15, 1995 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
Italian fashion designer Valentino is welcomed, with German model Claudia Schiffer, by the spectators on January 18, 1998 at Paris at the end of the presentation of his high fashion Spring/Summer 1998 collection. (Photo by Thomas COEX / AFP)
Valentino with his models wearing the haute- couture spring/summer 2001 collection. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale/Sygma via Getty Images)
Valentino And Oprah Winfrey at the Valentino Fashion Show Hc Fall Winter 2004-2005 On July 6, 2004 In Paris, France. (Photo by Serge BENHAMOU/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Models walk the runway during the Valentino fashion show as part of Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2006 on January 23, 2006 in Paris, France. (Photo by Michel Dufour/WireImage)
Italian fashion designer Valentino inside the Ara Pacis during the opening of his commemorative exhibition celebrating 45 of his fashion and art designing on June 7, 2007. (Photo by Stephane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images)
Anna Wintour (R), the editor-in-chief of American Vogue watches a model presenting a creation by Italian designer Alessandra Facchinetti for Valentino during the autumn/winter 2008-2009 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris, 28 February 2008. (Photo by PIERRE VERDY/AFP via Getty Images)
A model walks on the runway at the Valentino Fall/Winter 2008-2009 ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Paris, France, on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008. Paris Fashion Week continues through the weekend. (Photo by Judith White/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Actress Liv Tyler and designer Valentino Garavani attend Samsung Imagination Icon's Series Premiere Event - The Red Thread: The Inspiration & Passion of Valentino Garavani at The Grace Building on September 3, 2008 in New York City. (Photo by Mark Von Holden/WireImage)
Models walk the runway during the Valentino Ready to Wear Spring/Summer 2011 show during Paris Fashion Week at Halle Freyssinet on October 5, 2010 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Models present creations by Italian designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli for Valentino during the Spring/Summer 2011 ready-to-wear collection show on October 5, 2010 in Paris. (Photo by FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP via Getty Images)
Anna Hathaway and Valentino Garavani arrive at the "White Fairy Tale Love Ball" party at the Wideville castle near Paris, Wednesday, July 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Models walk the runway during the Valentino Fall/Winter 2013 Ready-to-Wear show as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 5, 2013 in Paris, France. (Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage)
Valentino Garavani attends the 'Nocturnal Animals' Headline Gala screening during the 60th BFI London Film Festival at Odeon Leicester Square on October 14, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage)
Models walks the runway during the Valentino show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017 on October 2, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage)
Models walk the runway at the Valentino Autumn Winter 2017 fashion show during Paris Fashion Week on March 5, 2017 in Paris, France. (Photo by Catwalking/Getty Images)
Models walk the runway during the Valentino Ready to Wear Spring / Summer 2012 show during Paris Fashion Week at Espace Ephemere Tuileries on October 4, 2011 in Paris, France. (Photo by Michel Dufour/WireImage)
Models walk the runway during the Valentino show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2014-2015 on March 4, 2014 in Paris, France. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)
Valentino and Jessica Alba attend the Valentino show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017 on October 2, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Pierpaolo Piccioli, Mary J Blige and Valentino in New York on May 23, 2017. (Photo by Amy Sussman/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
A model, fashion detail, walks the runway during the Valentino show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2018/2019 on March 4, 2018 in Paris, France. (Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage)
Models walk the runway during the Valentino Haute Couture Fall Winter 2018/2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on July 4, 2018 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
(L to R) Giancarlo Giammetti, Valentino Garavani, Alessandro Michele and Lana Del Rey attend The Fashion Awards 2018 in partnership with Swarovski after party at the Royal Albert Hall on December 10, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Valentino and Celine Dion in the front row at the Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris, France on January 23, 2019. (Photo by Swan Gallet/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)
(L-R) Benedetta Piccioli, Naomi Campbell, Valentino Garavani and Gwyneth Paltrow attend the Valentino Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2019 2020 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on July 03, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Valentino Garavani and Sophia Loren wearing Valentino attend The Green Carpet Fashion Awards, Italia 2019, after party hosted by CNMI & Eco-Age, at Palazzo Marino on September 22, 2019 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Eco-Age Ltd)
