As a child, Valentino was entranced by the iconic images of glamorous women on the silver screen. Sitting in the dark movie theaters of his youth, he decide upon his life's work: to create beautiful clothes for women.

Over his 45 year career, Valentino had brought those flickering black and white images that filled his dreams to life in full-dimensional color. Since his fashion house's earliest days, when " Valentino Red" awed and inspired the fashion world, his couture designs have dominated the rd carpet and been sought by the global A-list, from Hollywood's greatest starts to royalty and the high-society figures who have defined the culture over the last decades of the 20th century and into the 21st. The genius behind Valentino's success was pure inspiration, combined with an iron will and his ability to know, as he puts it, "What women want." The ethereal and quintessentially feminine dresses he delivered throughout his career epitomize the Dolce Vita, which Valentino has lived and symbolized long after the real ara came to a close.

Gaining exclusive access to the inner orbit of Valentino's extraordinary world, Valentino: The Last Emperor, directed by Matt Tyrnauer, presents an unprecedented close-up look at a life and talent like no other. Tyrnauer and his filmmaking team were able to shoot hundreds of hours of footage over two years. In the process, they peeled back the layers on the secretive world of haute couture to crete a nonfiction film story of a man as he embarks upon the momentous and moving fnal at of his celebrated career.

When Valentino designs a dress, from its inception as a simple pencil drawing in his sketchbook to final stitch of thread, no detail is overlooked. Here, a signature Valentino red dress moves from the atelier table to the catwalk, an example of the passion behind his creative process and the pinstaking work that goes into every dress that bears the Valentino name. The singular force behind every creation: It must look beautiful on the woman who wears it.