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Yesterday, Valentino Garavani and business partner Giancarlo Giammetti launched the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum with a press conference hosted by Anne Hathaway in New York. The museum, in form of free downloadable app, allows people who don’t normally to go to fashion shows or have access to couture, to see over 300 dresses up close […]

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Along with business partner Giancarlo Giammetti, Valentino Garavani is the latest designer to dig into his archives with a virtual museum that will allow us to forego standing in lines. In form of a downloadable desktop app, the archive will be available December 5 and mimics a 100,000 square foot museum, with an interior inspired […]

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Nathalie Rykiel explained the reason for the Sonia Rykiel collab with H&M: they copied her! In an interview, the creative director revealed that she told the chain that if they wanted “[their] girls to wear Sonia Rykiel from H&M, let’s let them have the real thing!” [Nylon via Fashionologie]

Valentino partner Giancarlo Giammetti has learned just how far Facebook networking stretches, especially when it involves negative press. After watching the Valentino spring 2010 show in Paris, Giammetti took to his FB page and changed his status to read “not sad … just surprised. … We have always supported the new designers and we love them, but this time we have to distance ourselves from this ridiculous circus.” After a flood of comments, Giammetti deleted his status, “…because it was becoming [too] heavy.” [The Cut]