Matt Tyrnauer’s Valentino: The Last Emperor is a documentary about designer Valentino Garavani, his private side with lifetime partner Giancarlo Giammetti, and a fascinating career as Italian haute couture Master spanning 45 glorious years.
Valentino created designs for Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline de Ribes, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Sarah Jessica Parker and Julia Roberts.
The documentary looks at a majestic life from the inside, but the movie is not a simple story of shallow glamour. It is the saga of a family and a meditation on the creative process. It’s also the story of a soon-to-be-forgotten lifestyle at the twilight of haute couture.
Highlight of the docu is Valentino’s final show, staged in Rome’s Ara Pacis Museum. A collection of Valentino gowns from his early days to the present are draped on mannequins and mounted along two walls of the museum and lighted from beneath. Karl Lagerfeld pays homage, as does the elegant Hubert de Givenchy while Donatella Versace looks on admiringly. A huge party with a dazzling guest list is held at the Temple of Venus. A fashion writer comments that Valentino, Yves St. Laurent, and Lagerfeld, who apprenticed in Paris in the 1950s, were taught by Givenchy, Christian Dior, and Pierre Balmain, themselves heirs to Cristobal Balenciaga, Elsa Schiaparelli and Paul Poiret. She notes, sadly, that they have no successors. It’s the end of an era.
Zee Lifestyle Magazine, will be presenting this critically-acclaimed documentary in an exclusive one-time screening in Manila, Davao and Cebu. The by-invitation-only screening is presented together with Samsung on Aug. 20 in Manila, Aug. 23 in Davao and Aug. 27 in Cebu.
Hope I get invited...XOXO
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