More details of "The Most Glamorous Fashion Show Ever..."

We reported earlier in the day that Sarah Jessica Parker had called the Valentino 45th anniversary Celebration ''The Most Glamorous Fashion Show ever." While here at CharmFlakes, we maintain that every fashion show is a glamorous affair, we couldn't help but be bowled over by the emerging details from Rome of the glorious event. Friday Night brought together the most famous of the famed for a dinner in honor of Valentino, 300 people dining alfresco. The site was the ruins of Venus' Temple, in Old Rome, which had been reconstructed carefully to embody old Roman Times by renowned set designer, Dante Ferretti. He carefully added lighting rivaling that of the Parthenon in Athens, and created a mood that was La Dolce Vita to say the least.

The Temple of Venus et Roma with Coliseum in background

We love the eloquent description in the London Times, which reads,

As an obligingly picturesque lemon-slice moon rose across the inky sky, the columns gave off a ghostly glow. Italian opera struck up and from nowhere classical ballerinas suspended from invisible wires began to pirouette above the Roman traffic against the floodlit backdrop of the Coliseum. ...No wonder that there is now talk of the city keeping the floodlit columns as a permanent attraction.

The evening will be a high-water mark for all fashionistas and as an Italian-American, I must say I felt a surge of Pride in my Eternal City. It was a celebration befitting a king, and Valentino is the King of Glamorous Fashion.