Download the PDF In the court of Valentino.
by Michael Specter
June has never been an easy month for Valentino, the seventy-three-year-old Roman designer. But this spring was more frantic than usual. He introduced a new fragrance—V—and celebrated in New York at the end of May with a party that began at Bergdorf Goodman, continued at the Four Seasons, and ended, close to dawn, at Bungalow 8. Read more »
Michael Specter has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998.
