Portrait of a Fashion King: Palazzos, Pugs and Peons
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
Short, majestically coiffed, with hooded eyes, an orange-tinted tan and the peevish impatience of an absolute monarch: that is Valentino Garavani, the Italian couturier known simply as Valentino, as he appears in Matt Tyrnauer’s documentary portrait, “Valentino: The Last Emperor.” Watching the movie is a little like gorging on chocolate and Champagne until that queasy moment arrives when you realize you’ve consumed far too much.
Valentino, now 77, has created hundreds of beautiful gowns for the most glamorous women (most famously, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) since the 1960s. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4074 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 6 marzo 2009