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Overview
- The Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti Foundation confirmed he died peacefully at home in Rome, and no cause of death was disclosed.
- Public viewings are scheduled for January 21–22 at Piazza Mignanelli, with the funeral on January 23 at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri at 11 a.m. local time.
- Founder of the Valentino maison around 1960, he defined red‑carpet glamour with the emblematic "Valentino red" and dressed figures from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Elizabeth Taylor.
- Key milestones include selling his brands to HdP in 1998 for US$300 million, retiring from the runway in 2008, and a final creative project in 2016 for La Traviata with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli.
- Reports suggest his Brazilian godsons Anthony and Sean Souza could inherit much of his estate, though this remains unconfirmed and is based on a single gossip‑column source.