Valentino in the face of change still go its own course

Valentino Garavani announced his retirement last year, but so far, his farewell dance has been held three times and there is no sign that he has the meaning of seclusion. Instead, this year he appeared on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival, making a comeback for the documentary "Valentino: The Last Emperor." Although over seventy years old, but shiny color with white suits, so 70-year-old he was high-spirited. With him in the red carpet debut in addition to supermodel and actress, as well as his partner and life close friend Geometi, they have been living together for nearly 50 years. If you say Valentino is an artist, then Giorgio Maggi is a businessman, both work together to complement each other, of course, and ultimately, noisy . In July last year, Valentino held a show in Rome to celebrate the 45th anniversary of entering the international fashion industry, and Giocorti chose him the Colosseum. After seeing the ancient Colosseum, he only said three words: dirty, chaotic, poor. Geometrid seems to be preoccupied with Valentino's paranoid, and he just said lightly, "Dear, you've kept yourself in the design room for too long. The T-table you normally see before it's decorated The same is dirty, messy, poor ... "Valentino eventually persuaded. 1300 celebrities gathered in the Colosseum that day, the result he overjoyed. He said, "It's a moment that can not be reproduced." Reporter (hereinafter referred to as): What's your comment on each other? Valentino (hereinafter referred to as China): Many people say that in my life seems to be only Gio Macienti. Gio Macti is a very good partner and I really trust him. We've been working together for nearly 50 years. The feelings between each other are not greed for money, power, or demand. If I cooperate with others, I am afraid I may not be very good. Giorgio Magritte (hereinafter referred to as Kyrgyzstan): Valentino and Yves Saint Laurent is an excellent designer. He is never influenced by others in design and maintains the unity of design. He will not listen to anyone's advice, or with the so-called fashion flow, I think this is the basis for brand success. Note: After seeing the documentary, I feel like you often quarrel. Wah: I'm having a dispute with Giomatti at work, but never talking about work outside the office, never. In fact, we are very happy in private, and will be happy in the future. Reporter: Have you ever thought of leaving each other in these years? Kyrgyzstan: Never. Although both of us are more emotional people, but also very casual people. We often quarrel at work, but we never thought of leaving each other, and we did not have any place that could not live with each other. Note: One of the parties have never thought of exiting? Kyrgyzstan: No one asked us so, no one dared to ask. Everyone knows that two people have more intelligence than one person. Confused in the face of the future "Although I retired, I will design clothes" This may be the longest farewell to the fashion industry - from September 4, 2007 announced the retirement, to the evening of January 23, 2008 held the final Personal Fashion Show, known as Valentino Valentino "Haute Couture", culminating in his design career for nearly half a century draw a dead end. In the footage, they sit in their chairs and face the same problem - the future. Valentino said: "The future? I really do not know how to continue, a bit confused, but just want to live day by day." Remember: two why you want to retire? Kyrgyzstan: I remember holding a fashion show once. I met Giorgio Armani in the background. He was wearing a brooch on his clothes. I said, "George, Sergio (Armani's partner) has been around for years, and you've always been alone and working alone." He's right. I asked him again, "You have entered the Japanese market, you still have to continue?" He said of course. Then I asked, "I heard that you're going to retire now. What can I do if I retire?" I told him he was wrong, and a lot of things were born without death. He said, "Yes, yes, I have no friends, only my cat, this is all I have." He was very upset. Note: what will be done after retirement? Wah: I have a family with Gioperty - this is not really a family. We have a life, a house, and we all enjoy the same fun outside of fashion. For example, this time documentary. The future, maybe we still have a lot of things to do, although the fashion industry is very lively, but I still firmly choose to leave. However, I will design clothes for the actress, make them happy, which is very important to me. In the face of changing voices, "I never listen to people" In 1998, Valentino and Geotai Mai decided to 150 million pounds price, the "Valentino" brand sold to the Italian holding company HDP. In 2002, HDP sold the brand for 210 million pounds. Currently, Valentino brand has been the British private equity fund Permira acquisition, the purchase price of 3.8 billion. The prerequisite is that Geo Macienti must be the company's policymaker, because they know that only Giomatti can make Valentino. Matteo Marzotto, Valentino's current chairman, thinks the Valentino brand has to change. "The market tells us we have to make some new ideas, not blind pursuit of luxury." But Valentino still does what I can. Reporter: What is the secret of your success? China: No pioneering, no good designer. I know what a woman wants. To me, I always want to design - I can not afford to do anything else. Note: Why do you want to sell this brand? Kyrgyzstan: We had no money at the time, not very sophisticated management, we must have a partner, so we sold it, so Valentino this brand to a higher level. We contacted one of Italy's largest companies, unfortunately, there was a lot of controversy inside the company and Valentino was so small that I knew Valentino had no future in this luxury group. I'm glad Marzotto decided to buy it, but soon I realized they wanted to sell Valentino, and in fact he did it too, but we used strong contracts to protect ourselves, even in the business of buying and selling. Remember: Will you make some changes? Hua: After many attempts ten years later, after many attempts, after many liberations, you can imagine that I am going to listen to them so that I can not do that and can not do that. I will eat them! In the design, I will never listen to anyone's advice. And I have a very strong list (Bulgarian Princess, Jennifer Lopez, Kate Blanche, Uma Thurman, Julia Roberts, Kate Winslet, etc.) and all of this made me Very confident and very successful. Reporter: You once said that fashion is dead. Kyrgyzstan: We've pulled out of the fashion arena, even if the media now condemns our design as well. However, many people now have another explanation of fashion, that means spending money.

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