{"id":2241447,"date":"2026-01-20T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2241447"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:00:30","slug":"how-valentino-made-hollywood-the-enduring-obsession-of-the-fashion-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-valentino-made-hollywood-the-enduring-obsession-of-the-fashion-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How Valentino Made Hollywood the Enduring Obsession of the Fashion World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">At Variety, we talk a lot about the soft power of the red carpet. We live in an age where \u201cimage architect\u201d is a vaunted job title, thanks to the serious economic and cultural impact the right look can offer stars and brands.<\/p>\n<p>We can largely thank <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0884347\/\">Valentino Garavani<\/a>, who died at 93 on Monday, for creating this mutually beneficial relationship. In the late \u201970s, European fashion houses became global enterprises. As the designer of deeply glamorous and dreamlike gowns, Mr. Valentino (as he was known) saw the writing on the wall. Celebrities and artists \u2014 particularly actresses \u2014 would come to reinvent how fashion captivated culture and commerce. His muses are renowned, from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7695102\/\">Jackie Kennedy<\/a> to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000569\/\">Gwyneth Paltrow<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000210\/\">Julia Roberts<\/a> to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000949\/\">Cate Blanchett<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrated documentary filmmaker <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2961289\/\">Matt Tyrnauer<\/a> chronicled the designer\u2019s opulent lifestyle and pioneering spirit in the 2008 movie \u201cValentino: The Last Emperor.\u201d The project premiered at the Venice Film Festival that year,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Variety, we talk a lot about the soft power of the red carpet. We live in an age where \u201cimage architect\u201d is a vaunted job title, thanks to the serious economic and cultural impact the right look can offer stars and brands. We can largely thank Valentino Garavani, who died at 93 on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2241448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2241447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/How-Valentino-Made-Hollywood-the-Enduring-Obsession-of-the-Fashion.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241449,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241447\/revisions\/2241449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}