exshoesme (Free subscription) | yesterday
It was bound to happen. With all the fashion films this season, SOMEbody in the fashion biz had to get nominated for an Oscar. While the official noms won’t be out until February, Santa isn’t the only one making a list and checking it twice these days. Valentino: The Last Emperor, the wonderful film directed and produced [...]
SASSYBELLA.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Valentino Garavani’s hope of winning an Oscar for the documentary Matt Tyrnauer produced and directed about his last year at his namesake fashion house has come a step closer to coming true. The Valentino: The Last Emperor documentary has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards 2010 best documentary. In July, Tyrnauer revealed that Garavani had hoped [...] -- This...
Grazia Fashion (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
We’re in serious count down mode for next year’s Oscars. Who’ll win (and more controversially, who won’t…), whose speech will we be laughing/crying/cringing at, and of course who will be wearing what on that spectacular red carpet. And now we have our fashion fingers crossed for one award nominee in particular. Valentino: The Last Emperor, the documentary about...
lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A documentary about one of the world’s most famous fashion designers? Hmm. Not a film I’d ever choose to see, but sometimes we do what we don’t want to in order to make friends happy. It’s called compromise apparently, and the experience reminded me that any material, if well structured and presented, can make a decent film. The filmmakers follow the over-tanned Valentino Garavani and...
freemovietag - free online movies (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Plot: A story of friendship, a retrospective, and a look at haute couture as business: we watch Valentino Garavani (1932- ) and partner Giancarlo Giammetti from preparation for the 2006 Spring/Summer Collection in Paris to a July 2007 retrospective of Valentino's 45-year career, which included dressing Jacqueline Kennedy. The film documents a year of work, shows, business changes,...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Valentino Garavani is one of the world's most famous haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion empire owners. But notice what he's wearing:- The kaffiyeh has gone up a few fashion notches.
blogTO (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... most influential people, from movie stars to politicians. The second half of the double bill is Valentino: The Last Emperor , which tells the story of Valentino Garavani, the now-retired 70-year old designer who clothed Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy. Presented by the museum's swanky Institute for Contemporary Culture. Signy and Cleophee Eaton Theatre, Royal Ontario Museum,...
Mischa News (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
According to Vanity Fair, Mischa Barton was one of the celebrities in attendance at a Nov. 3 party in New York City celebrating the DVD release of Vanity Fair special correspondent Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary about fashion designer Valentino Garavani called “Valentino: The Last Emperor.” Mischa loves anything related to fashion – so it’s no wonder...
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... belonged to Warhol. As for the bidders, they included some rich names like fashion designer Valentino Garavani and jeweler Laurence Graff. The rich just keep getting richer! [ Image via Getty Images .]
Art reviw Alex Stalenbertg (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... mood of the saleroom was buoyant compared to the rest of the year, reports , with Fashion designer Valentino Garavani (who bought David Hockney’s painting California Art Collector for $7.9 million and the Jean Dubuffet sculpture Clochepoche for $1.1 million) and jeweler Laurence Graff (who bought a red and green Warhol Self Portrait from 1965) among the winning bidders. Alice Neel’s...
Style.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Valentino Garavani should seriously consider a second career as a party planner. Since hanging up his needle and thread two years ago, he's traversed the globe hosting fêtes, most recently for the DVD release of The Last Emperor . And he was back at it again last night at the Standard Hotel, in the space formerly known as the Boom Boom Room. Arriving on the arms of Daphne Guinness...
Osoblog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Fresh from her Halloween punch up, Mischa Barton emerged for the DVD launch party for Valentino: The Last Emperor in New York this week looking rather summery in a floral maxi dress. Despite the temperature dipping this week, Mischa...
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Gwyneth Paltrow (in a Roland Mouret dress, Alice + Olivia trench and Louboutin gladiators) celebrates the DVD release of designer Valentino Garavani and his business partner Giancarlo Giammetti’s The Last Emperor at the VBH Gallery on New York City’s Madison Avenue on Tuesday night (October 27). “I would do anything for Giancarlo and Valentino,” the 37-year-old...
Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... Jesus was actually working last night - he was deejaying at the party for the DVD release of Valentino: The Last Emperor . So Jesus was working while Madge was getting her drink on: He’s only been DJing for a few months, but Jesus Luz is already landing coveted gigs at top celebrity parties. The Brazilian model is finding it certainly helps to have friends in high places after he landed...
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... and has not publicly designated a successor on either the creative or the management side. Valentino Garavani retired last year. Late last month, Armani made several management changes, signaling an easing of his workload and the designer is reshuffling his agenda to take better care of himself. Widely regarded as the doyen of Italian fashion, he has kept investors guessing on the...
