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Remembering Valentino Garavani in photos
Italian designer Valentino Garavani was known for his glamorous gowns and signature “Valentino red,” which were fashion show staples for nearly half a century. On Monday his foundation announced he had died.
This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani poses at an exhibition of his best creations at the Ara Pacis museum, part of the fashion designers 45th anniversary celebrations on Friday, July 6, 2007 in Rome. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)
Models join the public in clapping hands as they flank Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani at the end of the show of his spring-summer collection in Rome, Italy on Jan. 20, 1971. (AP Photo/Gianni Foggia, File)
Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani walks the catwalk with his models after a fashion show on October 20, 1991 in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)
Jacqueline Onassis, walking barefoot, and Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani, left, stroll the streets of the Island of Capri on the south side of the Gulf of Naples, Italy on August 31, 1970 after disembarking from her husband’s, Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, yacht “Christina”. (AP Photo, File)
Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani, left, waves to the public and holds by the hand American actress Sharon Stone wearing the wedding gown at the end of the presentation of Valentino’s 1994 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection presented in Paris October 13, 1993. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
Actress Elizabeth Taylor, left, and designer Valentino Garavani pose for photographers in Rome, Jan. 19, 1990 during the presentation of the Italian designerís 1990 Spring-Summer collection. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti, File)
Models take to the runway after the presentation of Italian fashion designer Valentino’s Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2008 collection, in Paris, Jan. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)
Famed Italian designer Valentino Garavani, is applauded by his models, after he presented his Spring-Summer High fashion collection in a Rome hotel, Italy on Thursday, Jan. 24, 1985. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti, File)
US actor Sylvester Stallone, right, meets Italian designer Valentino Garavani, left, ready to wear collection on March 17, 1991 in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)
As models and collaborators clap hands, Valentino Garavani salutes cheering guests after he presented his Fall-Winter 1986-1987 High Fashion collection on July 25, 1986 in Rome. (AP Photo/Gianni Foggia, File)