Valentino may have bid ‘arrivederci’ back in January, but that won’t stop his presence from influencing designers for spring 2009 and beyond.

New York Fashion Week will honor the designer with a high-tech exhibit, called The Red Thread: The Inspiration and Passion of Valentino Garavani. Get your tongue around that mouthful, and you can be guaranteed an all-together new exhibition experience, known as “digital curation”, thanks to the folks at Samsung Electronics.

It will feature five rooms, with each focussing on a different part of the design process. It will showcase his couture dresses and sketches, as well as footage from the Matt Tyrnauer documentary Valentino: The Last Emperor. Basically, it will include all things Valentino! Fabulous!

[Via Catwalk Queen]