Meet the Valentino brand history – origins of luxurious fashion oasis

As with many high-couture fashion brands, the Valentino history and brand origin started as a one-man show. Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani was born in Voghera, a small town settled in the Italian region Lombardy, in the year 1932. Since he was a little boy he was interested in both fashion and art, which, in later years, led him to study fashion sketching at Santa Maria Institute in Milan.

After attending the Berlitz French course, he went to Paris to study fashion at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1949, which helped him to broaden his horizons and express his creativity in the best possible way.

Thanks to the prize he won in one fashion competition in Paris, he got a job at the French couture house of Jean Dessès. In the year of 1957, he started working for Guy Laroche, the former illustrator at Dessès, who decided to set up his own fashion house.