Valentino: At the Emperor's Table - Assouline Coffee Table Book

by Photographs by Oberto Gili André Leon Talley

Valentino Garavani, often known simply as Valentino, is a legendary fashion designer and master couturier. He founded his eponymous fashion house in Rome in the late 1950s and has since established an illustrious career designing for the world’s most glamorous women, from royalty to Hollywood icons, including Jackie O, Elizabeth Taylor and modern-day muses like Gwyneth Paltrow and Anne Hathaway. From his start designing dresses, Valentino and long-time business partner Giancarlo Giammetti built the Valentino brand into an international empire, now one of the most iconic fashion brands in the world, often associated with his signature color, “Valentino Red”. Though Valentino retired from fashion in 2008, he continues to create and follow his passions.

Genres: Fashion, Design

240 pages, Hardcover

First published October 28, 2014

Reviews

[Nerisa Eugenia Waterman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Of course, you probably won’t find Valentino in an apron cooking in the kitchen, but he does come up with some breathtaking tablescapes for entertaining. At the Emperor's Table is a cookbook like no other cookbook you have ever encountered.


The cookbook contains recipes from Valentino’s personal chefs….and like I said before…beautiful tablescapes designed by Valentino himself. Valentino’s passion for tablescapes began after he received a hostess gift, but not just any hostess gift, a vermeil saltcellar shaped as a throne.

With that said, this book is a little bit more on the lavish side, I mean this is not the kind of cookbook you give to your college freshman who is moving to his new apartment. But then again...Valentino never said that he created this cookbook for the average college freshman.

This cookbook is a Valentino creation, and like any Valentino creation, it’s a masterpiece…a work of art that should be treasured for years to come. This cookbook is definitely the haute couture of all the cookbooks that has ever been published to date...with a haute couture price tag.

Do I love this cookbook?
Absolutely...I think everyone deserves to have a Valentino.

This review was modified for Goodreads;My Full Review: http://cookingandcouture.webs.com/app...-

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