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Anne Hathaway, Elizabeth Hurley, Tom Ford, Anna Wintour and Donatella Versace are among the global film and fashion celebrities that attended the funeral on Friday of beloved designer Valentino Garavani, who died aged 93 at his Rome residence Monday.<\/p>\n
Valentino, as the iconic fashion mogul was known, appeared as himself in the hit 2006 film \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d alongside Hathaway, who made the trek to Rome to pay her final salute accompanied by husband Adam Schulman. The funeral service was held in Rome\u2019s central Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri church. Hurley attended with her son Damian Hurley.<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Models Claudia Schiffer and Natalia Vodianova, and veteran British fashion journalist Suzy Menkes\u00a0also travelled to Rome to mourn the legend known for his \u201cValentino red\u201d gowns, who dressed some of Hollywood\u2019s biggest stars.<\/p>\n Alessandro Michele, who is the current creative director at Valentino, was also seen at the ceremony, as was Pierpaolo Piccioli, who led the Valentino brand from 2008 until 2024. Following his retirement in January 2008, a feature-length documentary directed by Matt Tyrnauer about Valentino\u2019s career and life, titled \u201cValentino: The Last Emperor,\u201d premiered at the Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n In past days, thousands of mourners lined up to\u00a0honor the \u201clast emperor\u201d\u00a0at the headquarters of the Valentino foundation in Rome, where his coffin was adorned with one red rose surrounded by white flowers.<\/p>\n Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri hailed Valentino as one of \u201cItaly\u2019s most luminous and beloved figures,\u201d as tributes poured in from Sophia Loren, Gwyneth Paltrow, Carla Bruni, Cindy Crawford and Colman Domingo, to name a few.<\/p>\n Over the years, Valentino has designed custom wedding dresses for Hathaway, Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow, Courteney Cox and Nicola Peltz Beckham, and continues to be a red-carpet favorite of stars like Julia Roberts, Cate Blanchett, Florence Pugh, Zendaya, Dakota Johnson and Elle Fanning.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anne Hathaway, Elizabeth Hurley, Tom Ford, Anna Wintour and Donatella Versace are among the global film and fashion celebrities that attended the funeral on Friday of beloved designer Valentino Garavani, who died aged 93 at his Rome residence Monday. Valentino, as the iconic fashion mogul was known, appeared as himself in the hit 2006 film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2247111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[357065,312153,354843,356332,429518,354579,435050,313036,366376,433750,433808],"class_list":["post-2247110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-anna-wintour","tag-anne-hathaway","tag-claudia-schiffer","tag-damian-hurley","tag-donatella-versace","tag-elizabeth-hurley","tag-natalia-vodianova","tag-rome","tag-tom-ford","tag-valentino-garavani","tag-valentino-red"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Anne-Hathaway-Elizabeth-Hurley-Tom-Ford-Among-Film-and-Fashion.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247110","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=2247110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247112,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247110\/revisions\/2247112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}