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...This season, Valentino menswear includes suiting, shirts and jeans emblazoned with texts from Hanya Yanagihara’s bestselling 2015 novel A Little Life....
...The powerful “In This Case” (1983) was sold by the co-founder of fashion label Valentino, Giancarlo Giammetti, and had sold at auction for a mere $1m in 2002....
...Among them was Sheikh Hamad Al Thani, who has a home nearby, jeweller Laurence Graff and fashionista Valentino....
...Adrian Joffe, the CEO of Comme des Garçons, is a big fan of Mr Rubchinskiy, and wanted to stock the line at his Dover Street Market....
...“I think all guys would love to have the freedom of the surf world,” says Adrian Ward-Rees, director of menswear at Hong Kong-based Lane Crawford....
...Private equity is also playing a part, with Permira this year buying Valentino. Mr Cavalli says Merrill Lynch could help him to find a partner and go public in two or three years....
...As a mature luxury fashion brand, Valentino is a new type of investment for Permira....
...It helped Permira, private equity group, to buy a large stake in fashion group Valentino. It had a pivotal role in Telefónica of Spain’s purchase of a crucial shareholding in Telecom Italia....
...The film led her to Adrian Joffe, president of Comme des Garçons, who suggested she design a capsule collection of white shirts for his haute boutique Dover Street Market in London....
...Adrian Michaels is the FT’s Milan correspondent....
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