Watch this new documentary on Italian couturier Valentino Garavani and experience the feeling of going two hours without blinking. Sighs all around at the sight of his Roman villa, the private jet, the dresses, the ski and cruise vacations .... almost enough to leave you feeling nauseous with overindulgence, but it's a good kind of nausea. Although the 77-year-old designer's insistence on perfection (every stitch is sewn by hand) and penchant for opulence have made him the stuff of fashion legends, the emotion, humor and pain of the film stem largely from his 50-year partnership and love affair with the strikingly handsome Giancarlo Giametti. The film's cameos are a veritable who's-who of the industry, with insiders such as Karl Lagerfeld, Donatella Versace, Anna Wintour, Gwyneth Paltrow and Liz Hurley showing up to pay their respects to the king of couture. And in true Valentino fashion, it all ends in a giant, gorgeous spectacle overlooking the Colosseum - I'm sighing again just thinking about it.
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