Valentino: Italian master of 20th-century glamorous fashion

The Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died at 93. Usually known only by his first name, he founded his house in 1959, and worked for almost half a century before retiring in 2007. Valentino scaled the heights of haute couture, created a business empire and introduced a new colour to the fashion world, the so-called ‘Valentino Red’