An unguarded quote from Valentino’s business partner
When asked by the Telegraph Magazine if he thought haute couture could last much longer, Giancarlo Giammetti said:
No, of course not. Why would a young woman want to sit eight hours a day with an eye loupe sewing and embroidering a pattern? And for whom, some princess in Saudi Arabia? Or the girlfriend of some international Russian thug?
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