The fashion designer Valentino Garavani is especially known for his couture creations in which colour?

Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, (born May 11, 1932, Voghera, Italy), is an Italian fashion designer best known for garments in his trademark “Valentino red” (Rosso Valentino).

Valentino began study of fashion in 1949 in Milan, then in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts and at a school run by the Chambre Syndicale, the French fashion governing body. Valentino won a competition for fashion design run by the International Wool Secretariat and his prize led to a job at the French couture house of Jean Dessès.

In 1959 Valentino returned to Rome and presented his first collection in his own salon on Via Condotti. He debuted his first couture fashion line in 1962 at the Pitti Palace in Florence and began to establish an international reputation. Well-known personalities soon sought him out for designs, including Belgian Queen Paola, Princess Margaret of the UK, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Jacqueline Kennedy. Valentino designed many dresses for Kennedy, including the dress she wore to her husband’s funeral in 1963 and then, in 1968, a dress for her wedding to Aristotle Onassis.

In 1969 his first ready-to-wear shop in Milan was followed by stores in New York City and Rome the following year. He and his partner Giancarlo Giametti sold the company in 1998, though Valentino remained the designer. In 2006 he received the French Legion of Honour medal, and he retired in 2008. That year he was the subject of the documentary “Valentino: The Last Emperor”.