Fashion Staple Valentino Resigns

Just a quick post on recently released news that designer Valentino Garavani has announced his resignation.

VALENTINO has confirmed this afternoon that he will step down from the company he founded in 1960 after just one more ready-to-wear show and one more Haute Couture season.

"My future will be filled with new interests and challenges," he says. "Some may be linked to fashion, as I have a strong desire to create and support institutions to promote the study of fashion design, and to preserve the history of the art of fashion. It will be a marvellous continuation of this amazing adventure that I had the privilege to have. Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life."

Valentino is/was a staple in the fashion community and has dressed some of the world's most glamorous people, including Princess Margaret, Julia Roberts, and Claudia Schiffer.

From his signature color red to his creation of some of the world's most elegant eveningwear, Valentino will be missed. On the eve of Fashion Week in New York, we wish him continued success as he enters a new chapter in his fruitful life.

Thoughts on Valentino: his life, his work, his resignation... his future?