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Stars of the runway and the surface person said farewell to manner decorator Valentino astatine a religion work successful Rome.
The biggest names in fashion - including Donatella Versace, Tom Ford and Maria Grazia Chiuri - gathered successful the Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli connected Friday for the funeral.
The couturier, who built 1 of Italy's astir celebrated manner houses, died connected Monday aged 93, with the quality being met by an outpouring of tributes from planetary celebrities.
The assemblage of mourners - which included actresses Anne Hathaway and Elizabeth Hurley and models Natalia Vodianova and Bianca Brandolini d'Adda - was dotted with splashes of his signature colour "Valentino red".
The mourners besides included Vogue's planetary editorial manager Anna Wintour, American socialite Olivia Palermo and Valentino's existent originative manager Alessandro Michele and his predecessor Pierpaolo Piccioli.
Valentino's main enforcement Riccardo Bellini, French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault, Antoine Arnault, the eldest lad of LVMH president Bernard Arnault, and Rachid Mohamed Rachid, chief enforcement of Mayhoola, besides attended.
Valentino's co-founder Giancarlo Giammetti, dressed successful a tailored achromatic satin suit, and his partner, Bruce Hoeksema, accompanied the woody coffin arsenic it entered the church, drafting applause from the assemblage outside.
"Through him, I discovered beauty, a quality that followed america passim our lives, that has kept america busy. We met erstwhile we were kids, we dreamed the aforesaid dreams, we managed to realise immoderate of them, I would adjacent accidental galore of them," Mr Giammetti said successful his eulogy.
Mr Hoeksema said: "You were beside maine erstwhile words were not needed. Life was not ever perfect, but it was real. One time astatine a time, for much than 40 years."
Valentino dresses became a fixture of Hollywood reddish carpets - with Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Lopez and Cate Blanchett among the stars to person worn his designs.
Other celebrated names included Princess Diana, Queen Rania of Jordan, and erstwhile US archetypal woman Jacqueline Kennedy - who wore his dresses passim her mourning play for John F Kennedy.
Hundreds gathered astatine the basilica, which was designed by Michelangelo and built connected the ruins of past Roman baths, and famed for the reddish of its marbled walls and columns.
More than 10,000 radical person paid their respects to Valentino implicit the past 2 days arsenic helium laic successful authorities successful Rome's Piazza Mignanelli, adjacent to his manner house's humanities headquarters.
Born Valentino Garavani, successful Voghera, bluish Italy, helium became known simply arsenic Valentino - sharing the sanction with his eponymous manner line.
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