Women’s Wear Daily on Wednesday revealed Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti as the 2025 recipients of the WWD John B.

Matt Tyrnauer, who directed the 2009 documentary “Valentino: The Last Emperor,” said in an interview that the book shows the house’s role in the invention of fashion P.R. and modern advertising.

Drawings, magazine editorials, and old advertisements fill in the gaps. Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani was born in 1932 in the small town of Voghera, south of Milan.