Giancarlo Giammetti

Giancarlo Giammetti was born in Rome in 1942. He attended liceo classico at the Collegio San Gabriele in Rome and studied at a local faculty of architecture.{{cite news |last=Tyrnauer |first=Matt |date=August 2004 |title=So Very Valentino |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2004/08/valentino200408?currentPage=1 |accessdate=28 November 2010 |publisher=Vanity Fair}}

He met Valentino Garavani in 1960, when he was 18 and Valentino 28, and the two created the fashion company Valentino that same year.{{Cite news |last=Horyn |first=Cathy |date=2000-06-20 |title=The Sheik of Chic And the Soul of Perfection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/20/style/the-sheik-of-chic-and-the-soul-of-perfection.html |access-date=2024-11-21 |work=The New York Times}} In 1989, he created with Valentino the Valentino Academy, a cultural and art exhibition space located near Valentino's atelier in Rome.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/11/news/from-valentino-three-decades-of-glamour.html|title=From Valentino, Three Decades Of Glamour|last=Morris|first=Bernadine|date=June 11, 1991|work=The New York Times}} In 1998, the Valentino brand was sold to the Italian conglomerate Holding di Partecipazioni (HdP) for $300 million,{{Cite web |last=Goldstein |first=Lauren |date=2000-08-07 |title=Valentino's Day |url=https://time.com/archive/6952563/valentinos-day-2/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=TIME |language=en}} and, in 2002, to the Marzotto group for $210 million.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7586594.stm|title=Valentino stays in fashion|last=Smith|first=Neil|date=28 August 2008|work=BBC Online|accessdate=28 November 2010}} Giammetti eventually left the Valentino group in 2007 after its acquisition by British private equity group Permira, as the structure had evolved into a corporate giant and he felt his days were over.{{Cite web |title=Giancarlo Giammetti: ‘We couldn’t launch Valentino today’ |url=https://www.ft.com/content/1bc3f6a1-3477-4762-96cb-7c596c5e0949 |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=www.ft.com}}

In 2013, Assouline Publishing published Private: Giancarlo Giammetti a collection of photos "culled" from 57,000 personal pictures Giammetti had catalogued over the years.{{Cite web |last=Owens |first=Mitchell |date=2013-12-01 |title=Giancarlo Giammetti's Memoir Offers a Peek Inside His Fashionable Life |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/private-giancarlo-giammetti-valentino-book |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=Architectural Digest |language=en-US}} A party was hosted in Milan by Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani to celebrate the book's release, which was attended by Anna Wintour, Georgia May Jagger, Joan Smalls, Olivia Palermo.{{cite web |author=Diderich, Joelle |date=21 February 2014 |title=Valentino Gang Toasts Giammetti Book |url=http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/valentino-gang-toasts-giammetti-book-7494940?src=nl/wkEye/20140221 |accessdate=21 February 2014 |publisher=WWD}}

He and Garavani created the Valentino Garavani Foundation in 2017 to focus on Valentino's archives and philanthropic affairs. In 2021, he put up for sale, at Christie's, Jean-Michel Basquiat's In this case (1983) for $50 million, which he had purchased in 2007 from the Gagosian.{{Cite web |last=Villa |first=Angelica |date=2021-04-26 |title=Valentino Cofounder to Sell $50 M. Basquiat at Christie’s |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/basquiat-valentino-cofounder-giancarlo-giammetti-christies-sale-1234590836/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=ARTnews.com |language=en-US}}

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The relationship between Valentino and Giammetti and the events leading to their retirement and up the party in Rome, and the party itself, are covered in the 2008 film Valentino: The Last Emperor.{{Cite news |date=2009-04-19 |title=Valentino: A Stylish Career Laid Bare |url=https://www.npr.org/2009/04/19/103263454/valentino-a-stylish-career-laid-bare |access-date=2024-11-22 |work=NPR}}

• Thomas Ammann

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNKnNY4uzfo Interview for the launch of his book, Private]

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