Valentino: The Last Emperor

An intimate, engaging, and humorous exploration of one of Italy’s most extravagant icons. The dramatic, very colorful culmination of Valentino’s celebrated career, tells the story of his extraordinary life and work, and also explores the larger themes affecting the business of fashion today. At the heart of the film is the unique relationship between Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo Giammetti. Valentino is the last of the great couturiers. He is a design genius, an Italian legend, and the man who lives in a lost world of luxury and extravagance beyond comparison. The film provides an insider’s view of his creative brilliance, as well as his opulent lifestyle, as he rubs shoulders with Hollywood and political elite, and the European royal families – a true maestro of la dolce vita. Valentino: The Last Emperor showcases the artist’s historic importance – he dressed the likes of Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana – and now finally, on the heels of his retirement from the fashion world, the film provides an intimate, funny, dramatic and very human portrayal of the man at the center of a brilliant, colorful chapter in the history of Rome and Europe, at the end of an era in global fashion.