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Valentino is a fashion house fashioned by Valentino Garavani, born on May 11, 1932, in the town of Voghera, Italy. He became interested in fashion as in high school, and at age 17 he enthused to Paris to follow this interest. He exhausted several years there, taking jobs with designers Jean Desses and Guy Laroche. He moved to Rome in the starting of the 1960s and started his own fashion house, Valentino. His first show, during 1962, was a success, and Valentino was welcomed into the fashion world. In 1967, he premiered the Valentino White Collection, which became famous for the "V" logo he intended. He planned the white dress that Jacqueline Kennedy wore to her wedding with Aristotle Onassis. At present he designs menswear and womenswear and has his own perfume line. In 1990, he cofounded the L.I.F.E. Association with Giancarlo Giammetti, a plan for the support of AIDS victims. He is at present 72 years old, still designing, and living in Rome.