Italian fashion designers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Chapters: Valentino Garavani, Elsa Schiaparelli, Fiorucci, Giorgio Armani, Emilio Pucci, Donatella Versace, Massimo Osti, Anita Pallenberg, Missoni, Gianni Versace, Ermenegildo Zegna, Gianfranco Ferré, Salvatore Ferragamo, Nino Cerruti, Giuliana Camerino, Riccardo Tisci, Angelo Litrico, Ennio Capasa, Mila Schön, Alberta Ferretti, Roberto Cavalli, Renzo Rosso, Miuccia Prada, Alessandro De Benedetti, Luciano Soprani, Alessandro Sartori, Valeria Marini, Nina Ricci, Emilio Cavallini, Antonio D'Amico, Ferdinando Sarmi, Franco Moschino, Giambattista Valli, Irene Galitzine, Antonia Sautter, Sergio Tacchini, Tod's, Fendi, Stefano Pilati, Nicola Trussardi, Galeazzo von Mörl, Cesare Paciotti, Bruno Magli, Sergio Rossi, Caraceni, Elsa Peretti, Fausto Sarli, Roberto Capucci, Carlo Palazzi, Agostino Lanfranchi, Italo Zucchelli, Loro Piana, Laura Biagiotti, Rene Caovilla, Alessandra Facchinetti, Guccio Gucci, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Rocco Barocco, Renato Balestra, Loris Abate, Edina Altara, Corneliani, Rossella Jardini, Alviero Martini, Mario Prada, Romeo Gigli, Enrico Coveri. Excerpt: Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani (born 11 May 1932), best known as Valentino, is an Italian fashion designer and founder of the Valentino SpA brand and company. His main lines were Valentino, Valentino Garavani, Valentino Roma, and R.E.D. Valentino. Valentino became interested in fashion while in primary school in his native Voghera, Lombardy, northern Italy, when he apprenticed under his aunt Rosa and local designer Ernestina Salvadeo, an aunt of noted artist Aldo Giorgini. Valentino then moved to Paris to pursue this interest with the help of his mother Teresa de Biaggi and his father Mauro Garavani. There he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. His first choice for an apprenticeship, in Paris, was Jacques Fath, then Balenciaga. He found an apprenticeship with Jean Desses where he used to help style icon countess Jacqueline de Ribes sketch her dress ideas. He then joined Guy Laroche for 2 years. At Jean Desses, Valentino sketched furiously, between helping with window dressing and greeting clients for the daily 2:30 pm private showings. Most of his early sketches were lost. At a Rome exhibition in 1991 a smattering went on display and current clients at that time such as Marie-Hélène de Rothschild and Elizabeth Taylor marveled that the DNA of Valentino's style was already apparent in the layers of white pleats and animal prints. A wedding dress by ValentinoAfter five years, Valentino left Jean Desses under a cloud over an incident about prolonging a vacation in Saint-Tropez that still makes him wriggle uncomfortably today. Rescued by his friend Guy Laroche, he joined his "tiny, tiny" fashion house. After discussions with his parents, he decided to return to Italy and set up in Rome in 1959. In 1959 Valentino 'left Paris and moved back to Italy and opened a fashion house in Rome on the posh Via Condotti with the backing of his father and an associate of his. More than an atelier, the premises resembled a rea