The FiFi Report 248

An ode to Valentino!

• “I never was a person who showed off my private life very much, and all of a sudden they were there filming. Sometimes I didn’t even know they were behind my shoulders.” Valentino about being filmed for the documentary Valentino: The Last Emperor.
• “He’s very used to being on camera actually. Valentino is kind of a movie star. He plays himself all the time, he’s never not on. So I don’t think he was playing to the camera, because, for Valentino, walking out the door is performing” Director Matt Tyrnauer .
• ” I am extremely happy to have quit from fashion. All of the designers are doing the eighties. I hate the eighties. I did it, and I hate it. When I go to see my dresses of the eighties, I vomit.” Valentino.
• “Compared to us, the rest are making rags.” Karl Lagerfeld tells Valentino after his show. And Vomiting.
• “I’m calling it the greatest pug movie of all time,” jokes the Film maker of Valentino’s dogs
• “There’s a scene in the movie where they’re making a $100,000 dress, and the pug walks out from underneath the dress, so yeah, they kind of got in the way” Director Matt Tyrnauer
• “They’re really not nice to everybody.” Model Karolina Kurkova about the pugs.
• “kind of mean,” agrees Gwyneth Paltrow. Dogs
• “It’s one explosion after the other.He loves the drama. There are divo moments and there are tantrums, and a lot of them are directed at the camera” Matt Tyrnauer in style.com
• ‘‘I cannot judge the movie. But we are not worried that sometimes we look a bit ridiculous or a bit extravagant. We are what we are.’’ Valentino
• “He pulled a Valentino. it’s sort of like a cross between a hurricane and a cyclone.” Matt Tyrnauer to WWD