Valentino is about to share his work of the last 50 years ,for all with a heart for fashion to take in. Of course, nothing beats the real thing, but once in a while we all deserve to be lazy And cultural. Living in the digital area, an online museum was an obvious next step to take.

Even though the 79 year old designer resigned in 2008, he couldn’t let his dream of sharing his gifts with others go by. “I see it as a part of my legacy,” said Valentino. I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it and in a manner easy and accessible for the younger generations. But it also important to remember things of the past, to review the fashion that has shaped out lives. I would call it Future Memory.”

Over 300 dresses are spread out over a space of 107,500 square-feet in the online museum. “Annimated galleries show a life’s work, and key dresses have been photographed in 360 degrees,” Valentino’s business partner for life, Ciancarlo Giametti, told WWD. “Click on them and they revolve to show every line and stitch. Click again and discover the history of the dress, who wore it and where and when, see it in the amazing campaigns that we created for the collections in the late Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties... move through to other spaces leading off the sunlit courtyards under the Roman sky to new galleries full of photographs of friends, models, drawings, animations, videos.”

On the 5th of December, Valentino and Giametti will launch the museum-application which will allow you to wonder around in a museum that shows you a dress’s life, from A to Z.