a beautiful mind

In this video, Carlos de Souza, one of the upper crust's go-to jewelry designers, member of Valentino's inner circle (and longtime, former publicist), and yogi to the people tells us he has diuretics of lemon and hot water, and one with cauliflower leaves everyday. He also suggests that if you keep the car running, you can do three cocktails before a dinner. Dude is the high life. Watching this is having a narcotic effect on me. It's like a snack. Forget Oprah, I want to follow his lifestyle of Buddhist beads and pocket squares. (Full disclosure: I covered his jewelry collection for Style.com, where this video is from.)

Carlos is also mentioned in Matt Tyrnauer's new documentary, "The Last Emperor," on the Valentino dynasty, which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival on August 28th. If his 2004 Vanity Fair piece (available off-line) on the family is any indicator of what we can expect from the doc, it's going to be crazy fabulous and even poignant. Here's an excerpt from the article:

"The Valentino entourage often travels together-to Paris for the collections, to Valentino and Giammetti's [Valentino's business partner] various homes, to the yacht, where Giammetti for a period in the 90s, made everyone do needlepoint. 'Except Valentino,' he says."

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"'One important side of my character,' Giammetti confides to me one night, 'is that I never break with people. This family has stayed together because of me, because when Valentino gets mad he cuts-that is that. I think it is so sad when I hear people say, 'I was with this woman or man for 18 years. I don't see him anymore. I don't even know if he is still alive.' That shocks me. I remember when Carlos left and moved to Brazil and married Charlene. Valentino refused to speak to him, but I always talked to Carlos. Then one day Carlos called and said he had a baby boy, Sean. I handed the phone to Valentino, and he started to cry and cry.'"

Valentino: The Last Emperor [Official Site]