Valentino, Italy’s haute couture “emperor”, was laid to rest in Rome on Friday, with the distinctive red he championed in his collections echoed in splashes of crimson among the black-clad mourners.
The biggest names in fashion – including Donatella Versace, Tom Ford and Maria Grazia Chiuri – gathered in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, a church designed by Michelangelo and built on the ruins of ancient Roman baths.
Valentino’s co-founder Giancarlo Giammetti, dressed in a sharply…
Stars of fashion and film bid farewell to haute couture ‘emperor’ Valentino
