Valentino SpA

The Valentino SpA is a 1960 by the Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani founded, internationally renowned fashion company, which is run since 2008 without the company's founder.

The Valentino brand is settled with Haute Couture fashion for women, ready-made clothing for men and women, accessories, leather goods, watches, jewelry and perfumes in the upper price segment. The company, founded in 2005 is part of the Valentino Fashion Group, one turn, since 2012 the royal family of Qatar.

Company History

The Valentino SpA was founded in 1960 by fashion designer Valentino Garavani ( born 1932 ) and his business and life partner Giancarlo temporary Giammetti founded in Rome after Valentino had fallen in building their own business from 1959 into financial difficulties. Valentino had graduated from the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, a fashion school of the Paris Haute Couture Association, and introduced in 1962 with the approval of the Association Haute Couture women's fashion in the top price segment ago. Garavani was responsible for the creative design within the company, Giammetti acted as managing director. With a fashion show at the Pitti fashion trade show in Florence began in 1962 by the international success of the designer and the brand Valentino.

Valentino women's fashion was from the beginning for the highest elegance, exclusive style, so that the brand was well received by celebrities. International stars and celebrities such as Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Princess Diana, Queen Paola of Belgium, Farah Diba, Princess Margaret, Ornella Muti, Jacqueline Kennedy and Sharon Stone were in subsequent years professing Valentino fans and friends of the designer. At least as Jackie Kennedy in the U.S. from 1964 publicity wore Valentino Fashion, Valentino brand and the designer in the international jet set were established. Also at the annual Oscars in Hollywood Valentino fashion was represented effective advertising on the red carpet.

Valentino preferred a simple, elegant design - like the solid colors white, black or red. To this end, he created specially the beam- strong ' Valentino red '. Badge of Valentino fashion were, for example, highly elegant evening dresses made of delicate fabrics in slim silhouettes, flowing dresses towing, the use of high quality furs and expensive equipment with beads and sequins embroidery with gold lace or silver ornaments. Suggestions for its fashionable style and language of its design won the couturier of works of fine art. In 1990, he also founded the Accademia Valentino in Rome, dedicated to the Italian art.

Already in the late 1960s was a big ' V' on the official Valentino logo. In 1966 the house Valentino held his fashion shows as part of the Alta Moda Look into Rome. 1969, Ready- to-wear women's line was established, followed in 1972 a men's clothing line. From 1975 Valentino women's fashion was shown at the Paris fashion shows. In 1977, the first women's perfume out of the house under the name of Valentino, which is still available. More perfumes followed until the 1990s; Since then, numerous, even for men, appeared. Over the years, arrived in the fashion industry added numerous secondary and branch lines for Valentino portfolio, most of which, however, were eventually reinstated. Men's fashion was finally presented at the Milan Fashion Week. The Valentino brand had become an international fashion empire.

1998 Valentino sold his company to the Italian grocery HdP Group (Holding di Partecipazioni industrialization ), whose subsidiary GFT had already been licensed partner of Valentino for years, for a sum of 270 million euros. However, Valentino signed an additional five- year contract as a consultant, thus remaining the chief designer of the house. In 2001, however, the fashion brand Valentino slipped into the red zone. In 2002, the Italian Marzotto group took over the company from Valentino HdP for 240 million euros (of which 204 million were liabilities, and the purchase price was only 36 million euros ) in 2005 and founded the Valentino Fashion Group. Valentino's contract was extended for another five years. In October 2007, Valentino Garavani announced in January 2008 to his retirement from the company, after the British private equity firm Permira in mid-2007 had acquired a majority stake in Valentino Fashion Group and his contract was not renewed as a designer for the brand Valentino. The haute couture show in Paris in January 2008 was the date last appearance of Valentino Garavani at the end of one of his fashion shows.

Permira began in the spring of 2008, the Italian fashion designer Alessandra Facchinetti - previously a designer at Miu Miu, Gucci and Moncler - as a successor Valentinos, initiated a profound restructuring and presented some brands within a portfolio of Valentino. Already in October 2008, after only two prêt -à -porter and haute couture fashion show, Facchinetti, who had tried their creations was his own way to go, by the design duo Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli - both long-standing Valentino staff and confidante - replaced. Valentino himself and Giammetti welcomed this personal decision in the press. Since then, the collections are continued in the style of the founder. Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti even appear since at Valentino fashion shows sometimes as invited guests in the front row. The somewhat neglected from 2007 menswear line - Permira had all the sub-collections of Valentino menswear set up on the main line - was revived under Chiuri and Piccioli, 2010. In January and June of 2012 was the Valentino brand with the Mens Collection Star guest at Pitti Immagine fashion fair in Florence.

Mid-2012 bought the royal family of Qatar on the financial services company Mayhoola that belongs to the sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority ( QIA), the Valentino Fashion Group, and thus the Valentino brand, from Permira for an estimated 700 million euros. The QIA is also since 2010 in the possession of the British luxury department store Harrods and holdings include investments in Tiffany & Co. and Louis Vuitton, as well as Volkswagen, etc.

Indicators

The company had worldwide in 2011 about 110 Valentino boutiques, which were operated on their own 67 and the rest were awarded to franchising partners. In the German-speaking countries there are in Berlin, Munich, Vienna and Geneva Valentino businesses. Showrooms, the company maintains in Milan, Rome, Paris, New York City and Tokyo.

Fashion lines

Valentino had his creations distributed to target groups in different brands. Some of them were still set from him again yourself, others were not completed until after the acquisition by Permira.

Women's Fashion

• Valentino Haute Couture - Haute Couture collection in the top price segment, presented at the international haute couture fashion shows in Paris
• Valentino - High-priced ready- to-wear runway collection, presented at the international prêt -à -porter fashion shows in Paris
• Valentino Roma - Elegant bridge collection ( launched 2000)
• R.E.D. Valentino - Fashionably youthful diffusion line ( launched in 2003 )
• Valentino Garavani - handbags, shoes, small leather goods, jewelery and accessories

Former fashion lines:

• Valentino jeans - denim collection for women (2000 set )
• Oliver by Valentino - Cheaper diffusion line for younger target group (1984 launched renamed V Zone Valentino in 1997, terminated in 2000 )
• And more

Men's Fashion

• Valentino - High-priced catwalk collection (up to summer 2008, presented in Milan, then shown to the summer of 2009 in Paris at the showroom, presented in summer 2012 in Florence at the Pitti Immagine, presented at the Paris Fashion Week in January 2013, only since 2007 menswear line by Valentino )
• Valentino Garavani - shoes, belts, bags and accessories

Former fashion lines:

• Valentino Couture - Luxury clothing line for men in the top price segment (2007 set )
• Valentino Roma - Elegant Bridge Collection (2000 to 2007)
• Valentino Uomo - Stock line ( set )
• R.E.D. Valentino - Fashionably youthful diffusion line (2003 to 2007)
• Valentino Jeans - Denim Collection (2000 set )
• Oliver by Valentino - Cheaper diffusion line for younger target group (1984 launched renamed V Zone Valentino in 1997, terminated in 2000 )
• And more