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Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE.

Valentino Garavani

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Valentino Garavani
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: May 11
Businessperson
Designer
Fashion Designer
Valentino
Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani
Valentino Garavini
Elegance
Proportion
Surprise
Balance
Emotion

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Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.
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The sand dunes look like two tits.
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Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
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When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.
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I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer.
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I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?
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I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.
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An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: 60s. It was a sort of little revolution the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
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I like things simple.
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French people are charming, adorable but not extremely generous with foreigners, but they believe in what they do. I feel proud in exchange because what I did in restoration is something I did for La France.
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