The Valentino Archives

July 16th, 2010

Valentino Garavani retired from fashion design after his 2008 couture show, but this retiree is far from gone. Valentino continues to make heads turn, from 2009’s Valentino: The Last Emperor to this month’s Valentino Garavani Archives.

A permanent museum based out of Valentino’s 17th-century Paris chateau, Domaine du Wildville will exhibit over 10,000 sketches (some displayed on iPads), photographs, and audiovisual documentations of the fashion icon’s designs. Marc Jacobs and Anna Wintour were just some of the many faces that celebrated the opening with the King of the Red Carpet. And come September (when the Archives opens to the public), we’ll too get to slip into the fantastical world of Valentino.