Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani dead at 93
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Valentino Garavani, the Italian fashion designer who built a world famous luxury brand around his first name, has died. He was 93.
Valentino died at his home in Rome “surrounded by his loved ones,” according to a statement on the fashion house’s social media pages. His cause of death was not released.
The Valentino brand became one of the biggest in fashion in the 1960s, and Valentino himself — who hardly ever used his last name — became known for designing stunning red dresses.
Valentino’s partnership with Jacqueline Kennedy in the 1960s made the two of them some of the biggest fashion icons of the era, and Valentino designed Kennedy’s dress for her wedding to Aristotle Onassis.
“I know what women want,” the designer said in a 2008 documentary titled “Valentino: The Last Emperor.” “They want to be beautiful.”
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