The exhibition featured items worn by icons such as Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Grace Kelly, Sophia Loren and Gwyneth Paltrow in an exciting installation created specially for Somerset House.

Divided into three sections; including a private view of Valentino's world through photographs from his personal archive, offering an intimate portrait of the life of the master.

The exhibition then unfolded into a couture fashion show where roles are reversed with visitors walking the catwalk to view a over one hundred and thirty Valentino haute couture designs. 

The final section unpicked the painstaking processes of crafting couture exemplified by the stunning wedding dress of Princess Marie Chantal of Greece, demonstrating the beauty of the work of les petites mains who sew each stitch by hand.