If you were watching the red carpet arrivals before 8:30 EST this past Sunday night, then his name was one those being tossed around. I’m not talking about the Pitts, Rourkes and co.; but instead Valentino. After playing before crowds at Venice International Film Festival and TIFF, Matt Tyrnauer‘s documentary on the fashion power house receives a March release at the Film Forum starting on the 18th. I don’t care about fashion, but the docu form could make me interested in just about anything. We received the poster one sheet for Valentino: The Last Emperor below. I included the synopsis after the jump and/or check out the official site.
A man whose fabulous gowns have graced the bodies of the world’s most glamorous women for nearly five decades. The film was shot over two years — in Paris, Rome, London, NY, Gstaad, and aboard Valentino’s yacht — during a period when rumors of the designer’s retirement were swirling about him and partner Giancarlo Giammetti. The filmmaker had extraordinary access to these men, partners in both business and life, whose arguments over the need for more ruffles or the appropriateness of sand dunes for a runway show are inevitably reduced to the intimacy and warmth that are the bedrock of their relationship.
