Fashion legend Valentino retires
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Italian designer Valentino says he will retire in 2008 after celebrating 45 years in fashion.
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Fashion mogul Valentino, his loyalties long divided between France and Italy, has chosen Paris to show his final collection, capping a dazzling 45-year career.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Valentino, the man viewed by many as the greatest creator of evening wear of his time and the designer with the plushest lifestyle ever, staged his last fashion show in Paris Wednesday before a glittering array of Hollywood stars, mega designers, grand dames, Old and New Money and every fashion editor of note on the planet.
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A line of children looking like angels  ended Gianfranco Ferre&#39;s menswear show on Sunday to a standing  ovation, just a week after the Italian designer died at the age  of 62 after a brain haemorrhage.
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The funeral for Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre, who died this weekend at the age of 62, will be held Tuesday in Legnano, the northern Italian town where he was born, his fashion house said Monday.
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Dual Olympic judo medallist and former world champion Kate Howey has announced her retirement at the age of 31.
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The passing of a fashion entrepreneur
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Former world number one Monica Seles announces that she is retiring after nearly five years away from tennis.
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Valentino is planning to paint the city red with festivities marking 45 years in fashion.
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Alessandra Facchinetti has been appointed to design all the women&#39;s wear lines for Valentino after the Italian couturier who founded the label announced his retirement, the fashion house said Wednesday.
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Valentino Garavani, known for his scarlet  gowns for Hollywood stars, said on Tuesday he would quit as a  fashion designer.
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Fashion Wire Daily - One of fashion&#39;s greatest designers, Gianfranco Ferre, died Sunday evening in Milan. He was 62.
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NEW YORK - Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at his home. He was 77...
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Sport: Spanish star, who won five major championships during a stellar career, announces retirement.
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Fighting back tears, Valentino waved goodbye to the fashion world on Wednesday with a haute couture show brimming with the glamour that made him a favorite with Hollywood stars, socialites and royalty for half a century.
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Italian designer Valentino, whose signature flaming red couture gowns have graced royalty, Hollywood stars and the international jet set for 45 years, announced Tuesday he was stepping down as head designer of the Valentino fashion house.  In a state...
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Philippe de Montebello, who has led the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 30 years, announced that he would retire at the end of the year.