Fashion Movies every fashion victim should have watched at least twice in a lifetime

3. Valentino – The Last Emperor (2008) di Matt Tyrnauer

Matt Tyrnauer was a Vanify Fair special correspondent when he shot this docu-film following  two years of Valentino Garavani’s professional and private life.  Taking these two years as a starting point, Tyrnauer also explores 50 years of one of the most famous fashion houses and its founder – a career so long and so iconic, the director nicknames Valentino “the Emperor”. Thanks to this movie we get to know what’s behind the cold fashion designer and his many collaborators: some of these working partnerships lasted for ages (like in the case of his manager Giancarlo Giammetti), others just a bunch of months, but what emerges is Valentino’s fairness in recognizing the importance of these people without whom his empire wouldn’t have been possible. Tyrnauer brings his viewer inside  Mr Garavani’s world, following the artist intent at creating work of arts made of flowing fabrics, highliting both Valentino’s methods and brilliant intuitions as well as his many personal flaws, his sudden changes of heart and mood and his often cold-blooded attitude. This movie is one elegant portrait of theemperor of fashion. Continue reading clicking the below button >