Any day now we will (hopefully) be able to wear some of the new Spring clothes we bought when there was still snow on the ground, the Met Gala is almost here, school will be over soon and summer holiday will begin. How times does fly! So one's thoughts turn to swimsuits, reading a book in the sun, self tanners (I am experimenting and will let you know if I find a good one) and some place wonderful by the sea.
Valentino is very Italian in that quality of life is very important. The pleasure of being around friends, in a beautiful location with delicious food is a very simple concept and one of the greatest luxuries. Weekend reading for you from RARE vintage. Read on...
Every Friday night of the summer, at 7:30 exactly, Valentino, his favorite pug, Oliver, and a few friends pile into a limousine and drive to a yacht basin an hour north of Rome. There they climb aboard the designer's eighty-five-foot yacht, have dinner and sail away. "The boat means peace," sighs Valentino.
T.M. Blue One anchored in the port of St. Tropez 2006.
To give an idea just how perfect Valentino, the Roman designer, is, two people, both Americans who don't wish their names to be used, tell a similar story involving a hair dryer. Evidently, when Valentino and his business partner, Giancarlo Giammetti, were moored off Capri last summer in Valentino's 152-foot yacht, T. M. Blue One, there was a lot of coifing going on.
''One of them would jump in the water for a swim, come back out, and suddenly you'd hear a blow-dryer going, 'Bzzzzzzz,' '' said one of the observers, who was on a boat nearby. ''In Capri, you're either wet from the water or from the heat. It's impossible to look your best all the time. But all day long, you'd hear the sound of a blow-dryer coming from their boat. 'Bzzzzzzz.' Ten times a day.''
