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Show all (5)"Valentino: The Last Emperor" provides a first-time glimpse into Valentino's world of bygone glamour. Filmed from June 2005 to July 2007, the crew shot over 250 hours of footage with exclusive, unprecedented access to Valentino and his entourage. The resulting non-fiction film is a portrait of an extraordinary partnership, the longest running in fashion, and a dramatic story about a master confronting the final act of his celebrated career.
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The Italian fashion designer Valentino has an aristocratic soul. He's the sort of man whose entourage includes a troupe of pugs that occupies an entire sofa on his private jet. But the Valentino Garavani to whom we receive prolonged exposure in Matt Tyrnauer's fascinating documentary "Valentino: The Last Emperor" is also a man of immense good taste. (It's here that you're encouraged to see beyond his tanned, leathery skin.) More than once he objects to the staging for one of his runway shows because it's wrong for his clothes. He abhors excess. He loathes tackiness. "I love beauty," he says. "It's not my fault." (Full review)
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