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.
From Valentino Garavani
I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.
I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
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.
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.
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.
I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'
I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.
I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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