Valentino (clothing brand)

Valentino is an Italian fashion house headquartered in Milan, founded in 1960 by designer Valentino Garavani and part of the Valentino Fashion Group . Pier Paolo Piccioli has been the creative director of the house since October 2008. The fashion house Valentino was founded in 1960 by Valentino Garavani in Rome, Italy, with the support of his father and his partner Giancarlo Giammetti. Valentino's international debut took place in 1962 in Florence, the fashion capital of the time. Valentino designed wedding dresses for Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Lopez, Sophie Hunter and Princess Madeleine of Sweden. 
In 1998, Garavani and Giammetti sold the company for approximately $300 million to an Italian conglomerate partially controlled by the late Gianni Agnelli, head of Fiat. In 2002, fashion house Valentino SpA, with revenues of over $180 million, was sold to Milanese textile giant Marzotto Apparel for $210 million. In 2012, Qatar acquired Valentino for €700 million through Mayhoola for Investments SPC. In 2020, the fashion house announced that it would no longer use alpaca wool, and cut ties with Mallkini, the world's largest private alpaca farm in Peru. The move followed revelations of animal cruelty in the industry.
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