Is valentino garavani gay
While all male fashion designers aren&#;t gay there are some who are, avoiding stereotyping, we bet you didn&#;t know that these 5 top designers were homosexuals :
Tom Ford&#; Tom Ford and Richard Buckley are hailed as the most adorable gay couple of the fashion industry. Cherish, at first sight, is precisely what describes the couple&#;s love story. Ford made the decision of marrying Buckley in a second elevator ride during just their second encounter!
Michael Kors&#; Le Pere and Kors met in when he was an intern at the company. Just a scant weeks after gay marriage became legal in Fresh York, Michael married his longtime partner Lance La Pere, vice president of Michael Kors Women&#;s Design in August
Karl Lagerfeld- In the early 70&#;s, Jacques de Bascher de Beaumarchais, an affluent quasi-aristocrat became the object of Karl Lagerfeld’s affection. Then, the It boy began an affair with Yves Saint Laurent in , fueling the rivalry between the two influential designers. After sharing De Bascher for a while, Karl had to let go of him as he died of complications from AIDS i
Gay Menswear Fashion Designers
Fashion design has always had a large contingency of gay men who are prominent in the profession. This is perhaps not surprising given the extent to which the industry relies on leading-edge and extravagant design, a particular skill of many in the LGBTQ community.
Often notable for designing haute couture and ready-to-wear for women, there is a smaller group of gay men who also design menswear. Most of them are highly visible and perform global brands either under their own labels, or associated with household-name design firms.
Successful menswear style comes down to three important components: cut, fit and material (including colour, design and texture). There can be various degrees of success with each of these components, but the top designers handle to excel with all three in combination. Fond of design success in any field (including architecture, housewares, and others), financial achievement often relies on a standardized signature design manufactured with mass production and accompanied by global distribution. The first fashion design
Ten Things You Might Not Know About Mr Valentino
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We aspire a very happy 86th birthday to the Italian fashion legend by presenting a selection of little-known facts about his life
TextHannah Tindle
Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani was born on May 11, in Lombardy, Italy. Before his retirement from fashion in , he created a world of haute couture and ready-to-wear imbued with sartorial romance, dressing women – including Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor – in gowns fit for Grecian goddesses or fairytale royalty, with dramatic flourishes and exquisite embroidery. Today, as he turns 86, we celebrate his life with a list of ten facts about him, from his love of pugs and collection of chinaware to his utter disdain for the s.
1. He has a passion for pugs If you love luxury brands, you love gay men. I may be missing a couple of valid links there, but the reality is that the luxury brand industry as we know it would not exist but for the creative work of legions of gay designers. Think of any major luxury brand—Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Chanel, Dior, Saint Laurent, Hermès, Armani, Burberry, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana—and there is a very talented gay designer who has played a significant role in its success. Sure, there are straight men and fabulous women designers, but the overwhelming majority—%—of designers in the fashion industry is gay. It got me thinking why that is so. Is there something special about gay men that makes them excel at fashion design? Is there such a thing as designer genes? The gay creative contribution runs deep, cutting across geography and time. Louis Vuitton became a worldwide phenomenon under the artistic leadership of the American designer Marc Jacobs, who came on board in , breathing new drive into its core bags business—think graffiti, think colourful monogra
The current number of pugs that Mr Valentino owns is unknown. “It all started with Maggie, their mother; since then I’ve loved the sound of names with M,” he once said. Other names include Milton, Maude, Monty, Margot and Molly. In the documentary Valentino: The Last Empe
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