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Giancarlo Giammetti said that he and Valentino together with Carlos, Charlene and Bruce form a real family. When the terrorism first started in Rome – the period when the Red Brigades were kidnapping people – Valentino was riding around in a bulletproof Mercedes. Château of Wideville was built by Louis XIII's finance minister and later home to one of Louis XIV's mistresses.
One of three children, Giammetti was in his second year of architecture school, living at home with his parents in the haut bourgeois Parioli section of Northern Rome. In 1966 he moved his shows from Florence to Rome where two years later he produced an all-white collection that became famous for the "V" logo he designed.
Throughout the 1970s, Valentino spent considerable time in New York City, where his presence was embraced by society personalities such as Vogue's editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland and the art icon Andy Warhol.
As narrated in "Private" by Giancarlo Giammetti, Valentino in the early 1980s met his current boyfriend Bruce Hoeksema, who started as a model at Valentino to later become the vice president of the Maison.
Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti's lifestyle has been considered flamboyant. The design of the spare all-white kitchen was given to one of Giammetti's friends, architect Tommaso Ziffer, a young decorator at the time. Paolo Peyrone, a pupil of the English landscape designer Russell Page, assisted with the design of the landscaping around the house.
That day Giammetti gave Valentino a lift home in his Fiat and a friendship, as well as a long-lasting partnership, started.
Hoeksema left Valentino at the start of 2001, and set up VBH, which stands for V. Bruce Hoeksema, in 1999. His high-end handbags, which are produced in Italy in limited runs, have a fan list including First Lady Michelle Obama.
John Fairchild, editor-at-large at Women's Wear Daily and W, told Vanity Fair, Valentino and Giancarlo are the kings of high living.
His life and accomplishments
- Born in 1932 and is currently 91 years old
- He is an Italian designer
- He has been dating Bruce Hoeksema long term since 1992
- Net-Worth around $1.5 billion
Valentino enrolled in École nationale supérieure des Bueaux-Arts, at the age of 17 and got all his fashion majors there.
Picture of École nationale supérieure des Bueaux-Arts
- In 1957 Valentino landed an internship with fashion designer Guy Laroche.
They have been together ever since, for more than 50 years,[107] although their love relationship ended in 1972. Portions of the property date back to the 16th-century but it was in 1750, on the occasion of his marriage to Maria Antonietta Vagnoli, that the nobleman Sallustio Terrosi started building the villa. The Darcy bag, which is handmade, has an eight-month waiting list, he said.
To print the story please do so via the link in the story toolbar. Rescued by his friend Laroche, he joined his "tiny, tiny" fashion house.
Chalet Gifferhorn in Gstaad, Switzerland where he spends winter celebrations.
A Penthouse on the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, decorated by Peter Marino with a collection of modern art including two Andy Warhol Lenin's, one red and one black, Rothko, Cy Twombly, Francis Bacon and George Dyer.
An Apartment in Kensington, London. Every other designer looks and says, "How do they live the way they do?" I don't think they made the money that Valentino and Giancarlo did, because Giancarlo knows how to make money. Part of this enlarged family called the "tribe" is also composed by Spanish Duchess Nati Abascal, French-Brazilian Princess Georgina Brandolini d'Adda and Valentino PR Daniela Giardina.
1990 marked the opening of the Accademia Valentino, designed by architect Tommaso Ziffer, a cultural space located near Valentino's atelier in Rome, for the presentation of art exhibitions.
A Penthouse in Via Condotti, Rome
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