I’m a grumpy old man I was born in september I’m too old to fight too slow to run i’ll just shoot you and be done with it shirt

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Today, Valentino celebrates 88 years, most of them spent making people and places look and feel exceptionally beautiful. He was only a teenager when he landed his first job in fashion in 1952, as an assistant to Jean Dessès. That Athenian-born couturier was famed for dressing both the I’m a grumpy old man I was born in september I’m too old to fight too slow to run i’ll just shoot you and be done with it shirt and I love this crowned heads of Europe and a bevy of elegant actors in his signature evening gowns, which often incorporated very fine needle-pleated draperies. Today, only the Valentino haute couture ateliers in Rome hold the secret of this art. As an apprentice at Dessès, Valentino sketched a series of flamboyant “Dream Dresses” for his own amusement, which were never realized at the time. In 1991, however, for an exhibition celebrating the 30 years of his eponymous fashion house, the ateliers finally made them—as a secret surprise to their creator—and they became the glorious finale pieces in the retrospective.

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I remember them well: a sheath dress embroidered with Meissen china motifs with panels of yellow, mauve, and gray chiffon draped around the I’m a grumpy old man I was born in september I’m too old to fight too slow to run i’ll just shoot you and be done with it shirt and I love this bodice, for instance, and another of chocolate velvet licked with turquoise coral branches and shrouded in a turquoise satin opera coat cuffed in sable. There was a dress with yards and yards of knife-pleated cornflower blue chiffon that looked as though he had dreamt it up for Elizabeth Taylor. It was clear that even at that age, Valentino was determined that no one was ever going to pass unnoticed in one of his creations.

1. Length is measured from the highest point on the collar down to the bottom hem. 2. Width is measured across the body of the shirt under the armpits, one way. 3. Sleeves are measured from center back to hem.