Legendary fashion designer Valentino Garavani, known simply as Valentino, died Monday, according to a post shared on his Instagram page.

But he finally had a bona fide cinematic moment of his own in 2001, when Julia Roberts accepted her Erin Brockovich Oscar wearing a vintage 1992 Valentino gown, a look he later called one of the happiest moments of his career because “movie stars love my clothes.”

Valentino scaled the heights of haute couture, creating a business empire and introducing a new color to the fashion world, "Valentino Red."

Mourners paid their respects Wednesday to legendary Italian designer Valentino Garavani, as his coffin went on public display following his death this week aged 93.The designer's coffin is on display for two days at the Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti Foundation in Rome's historic centre,

The fashion world remembers Valentino Garavani, legendary for timeless elegance and iconic silhouettes, who has died at 93, leaving a lasting fashion legacy.

PARIS -- PARIS (AP) — Valentino Garavani’s death cast a long shadow over the opening day of Paris Fashion Week menswear Tuesday, with front-row guests and industry figures mourning the passing of one of the last towering names of 20th-century couture — an Italian designer whose working life was closely entwined with the Paris runways.

Matt Tyrnauer spent years with the late designer and his partner Giancarlo Giammetti for his documentary Valentino: The Last Emperor.

ROME, JAN 21 - Valentino was a dreamer and remained the same young man his long-time personal and professional partner Giancarlo Giammetti met when the designer was 26 and his future business brain 16 in 1957,

Rome is paying its final tribute to legendary designer Valentino, who made his high-glamour gowns and trademark shade of red an iconic symbol of Italian elegance. Valentino Garavani, who died aged 93 at his Rome residence on Monday,

“I love beauty—it’s not my fault,” Valentino famously said with a shrug, and in fashion, he saw a way to captivate and ensnare women (his only clients when starting out, before he widened the purview of his well-dressed net).