Friday, May 22, 2009

Valentino: The Last Emporer

On May 13, I celebrated ME!!!!! And lucky lucky me, Anais is in the day club--woooo hoooooo!! So what did we do? We went to the MOVIES!!! There is this awesomly artsy theater in Shirlington, VA that was showing Valentino: The Last Emporer.
As a former fashion teacher, I was naturally up for seeing this! And it totally delivered--even with much of it being subtitled!! :)

It was basically a documentary of Valentino's last year as a designer. It started with an amazing fashion show in Paris and ended with his 45th anniversary celebration in Rome....this next picture is of the set in Rome.....sand dunes of some sort (don't tell that they were really styrofoam)....
The 45th anniversary exhibit had a ton of red dresses.....some seriously amazing stuff the way they displayed everything....


I had 2 favorite parts. The first happened when I said to Anais "What is wrong with him--why is his skin that color? It can't possibly be just a tan!" And then a few minutes later, Valentino asked his partner Giancarlo if he had any comments on the show and Giancarlo said "well if you really want to know, you are too tan."...............silence.............crickets...........and then Valentino said "No!" and looked away. hahahahahahahaha
Judge for yourself.....
Damn! Tom Ford is hot!

Anyway my #1 favorite part was watching this dress be constructed from the beginning.....
...truly, truly magnificent!!!!
Moral of the story--if you like fashion and you have an artsy theater nearby, go see this! It was lots of fun and very educational!

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