Valentino Garavani, the legendary Italian designer who built one of fashion’s most iconic luxury houses and made “Valentino red” synonymous with glamour, has died at 93. In this New York Time obituary, chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman pays tribute to the man once called fashion’s “last emperor.”
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