Biography
Giancarlo Giammetti was born in Rome in 1942. He attended liceo classico at the Collegio San Gabriele in Rome and studied at a local faculty of architecture. [2]
He met Valentino Garavani in 1960, when he was 18 and Valentino 28, and the two created the fashion company Valentino that same year. [2] [3] In 1989, he created with Valentino the Valentino Academy, a cultural and art exhibition space located near Valentino's atelier in Rome. [4] In 1998, the Valentino brand was sold to the Italian conglomerate Holding di Partecipazioni (HdP) for $300 million, [5] and, in 2002, to the Marzotto group for $210 million. [6] [7] Giammetti eventually left the Valentino group in 2007 after its acquisition by British private equity group Permira, as the structure had evolved into a corporate giant and he felt his days were over. [7] In 2026, following the death of Valentino Garavani, the New York Times described their collaboration: "If Mr. Garavani aspired to be the king of Roman couture, Mr. Giammetti was his prime minister, protecting and enabling his particular vision of elegance." [8]
In 2013, Assouline Publishing published Private: Giancarlo Giammetti a collection of photos "culled" from 57,000 personal pictures Giammetti had catalogued over the years. [9] A party was hosted in Milan by Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani to celebrate the book's release, which was attended by Anna Wintour, Georgia May Jagger, Joan Smalls, Olivia Palermo. [10]
He and Garavani created the Valentino Garavani Foundation in 2017 to focus on Valentino's archives and philanthropic affairs. [7] In 2021, he put up for sale, at Christie's, Jean-Michel Basquiat's In this case (1983) for $50 million, which he had purchased in 2007 from the Gagosian. [11]
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