21st-Century’s fashion.

Designers -V-

Valentino Garavani
Born: 1932, Voguera, Italy.

After completed his fashion studies and an apprenticeship with Jean Desses and Guy Laroche, in 1959 Valentino starts up his first studio in Rome. In 1960 begins his collaboration with Giancarlo Giammetti, who manages the commercial development of the House of Valentino. His first collection appeared in 1962 at the international fashion Gotha in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. His design for Jacqueline Kennedy’s dress for her wedding to Aristotle Onassis, for example, graced magazine covers worldwide and cemented Valentino’s reputation as fashion icon. The world’s most fashionable women, including Princess Diana, Marie Chantal of Greece, Elizabeth Taylor, and Sharon Stone, have worn his exquisite creations.
Quote: I have learned so much from working with actresses, all about hollywood. They don’t have a normal woman’s expectations of walking into a party. They are thinking all about an entrance.
- WWD Friday, March 1999.
Valentino by Franca Sozzani

Véronique Branquinho
Born: 1974, Vilvorde, Belgium.

Quote: I love the sensation of being covered up. I find that a body that is hidden often is more interesting and bewitching than a body that is revealed.

Véronique Leroy
Born: 1965, Liege, Belgium.

Quote: Aesthetically, I have always had a deep affection for what people consider ‘vulgar’ or in ‘bad taste,’ and I enjoy using them for my own purposes. In my own way, I have tried to turn something ordinary into something sublime.

Viktor Horsting.

Quote: Whenever a body is involved, sexuality has to figure somewhere in the equation, but for us the body is a support for the clothing.

Vivienne Westwood
Born: 1941, Derbyshire, England.

Quote: Thinking is questioning. Otherwise you’re just doing what everyone else is doing and that’s not thinking at all.

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