Valentino: The Last Emperor (2008)
by Matt Tyrnauer
With Valentino: The Last Emperor, cinema fully enters the world of Valentino Garavani
at the most delicate and symbolic moment of his career: his farewell.
Today, in light of his passing, that gesture takes on an even more definitive weight.
Directed by journalist Matt Tyrnauer, the documentary is not only the portrait of a legendary couturier, but also the chronicle of the end of haute couture as an artisanal and authorial practice — built on savoir-faire and on the centrality of the creator, before the system was absorbed by global financial logic.