Anne Hathaway Stuns in a Red Carpet Gown With a Hilarious Inspiration

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married her husband, Adam Shulman, wearing a bespoke Valentino bridal gown.“She’s a very good friend of mine,” the designer Valentino Garavani–who was honored at the 2023 British Fashion Awards Monday evening with an Outstanding Achievement Award–said at the time. “She’s like my daughter.”It’s only fitting, then, that Hathaway should also be in attendance, gracing the Royal Albert Hall’s rain-drizzled red carpet in an archival gown from the Roman house’s spring/summer 1993 collection, alongside Valentino’s partner in life and business, Giancarlo Giammetti.“Oh, I should talk?

But I’m the businessman,” said Giametti while being interviewed by Hathaway’s former stylist outside the entrance to the ceremony. “It’s vintage Valentino and Valentino designed it thinking about spaghetti,” he explained, running his fingers through the dress’s tasseled bodice.“And I’ve always dreamed of being pasta,” Anne Hathaway replied.Of course, Valentino hangs on an architecture of abundance, and so it should not come as a total surprise that Mr Valentino should seek inspiration from a plate of sauce-enveloped dough just as much as he would the Hollywood elite.

On that note: Gwyneth Paltrow–who also wore Valentino to her wedding in 2018–arrived at the Fashion Awards in a Rosso Valentino gown from the brand’s autumn/winter 1965 couture collection.Gwyneth Paltrow wearing Valentino haute couture autumn/winter 1965.The designer – who is 91 years of age – will be celebrated for his overwhelming contributions to fashion. “It has been an extraordinary adventure, filled with memories,” Giametti said in the days leading up to the event. “He is a person of few hidden facets, what you see is what he is: confident, disciplined, demanding of those around.