Doha: Legendary fashion designer and master couturier Valentino will meet students at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCU-Q) for a Q&A session beginning at 6.30pm today.
Valentino was born in Voghera, Italy, and founded the Valentino Fashion House in Rome in the late 1950s. He has since established a glittering career designing for some of the world’s most glamorous women, from royalty to Hollywood icons.
Giancarlo Giammetti, Honourary President, Valentino Fashion House, will also participate in the Q&A session, hosted and moderated by Sandra Wilkins, Chair, Fashion Design, VCU-Q.
Conversation will focus on Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum and possibly address the conference theme ‘3ajeeb!’.
The visit coincides with Tasmeem Doha biennial international art and design conference that runs from today until Thursday, organised by VCU-Q in partnership with Qatar Foundation (QF).
Doors will open for members of the community to participate in the Q&A session at 6pm. There are a limited number of seats which will be offered on the first-come, first-served basis.
The 2015 edition of Tasmeem Doha focuses on the theme ‘playfulness’ as expressed by the Arabizi term 3ajeeb! (ahh-jhee-b) meaning ‘strange in a strange way, cool in a cool way and slightly weird in a slightly weird way’.
It will foster discussions on ‘playful’ processes as a creative means to generate knowledge, technologies and discoveries.
The forum brings together leading designers, artists and creative thinkers and features programmes coalescing into five days of workshops, presentations, performances and exhibitions. For details, visit www.tasmeemdoha.com.
The event supports QF’s mission to unlock human potential through the development of world-class talent in art and design and will allow the wider public to observe at first hand latest global developments in the fieldThe Peninsula
