Bridget Foley’s Diary: He [Hearts] New York (and the U.S.)

When Giancarlo Giammetti and Valentino Garavani attend the CFDA Awards tonight, it will be in a whole new context. They have attended previously as guests, and in 2000 when Valentino received the Lifetime Achievement Award, the first non-American so honored. Tonight, they are benefactors, there to celebrate the presentation of the inaugural Valentino Garavani Giancarlo Giammetti International Award, to Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen.  In advance of the awards, Giammetti agreed to a catch-up conversation. Yes, he would be photographed, but minimal equipment, please. We meet at his apartment on 58th Street, One Beacon Court, a glorious 54 stories in the air with a wall of windows opening onto spectacular urban views and an inside view that is differently spectacular, its original clinical modernity tempered by Jacques Grange, who created an aura of uber-chic elegance built on major art. “I love New York,” Giammetti says. “To be able to see it from a certain height is incredible. The city is the most beautiful city in the world from a certain height.” This trip to New York was preceded by a three-day respite in Capri, where he and Valentino celebrated the designer’s birthday with a circle of 60 intimates, many of whom go back decades. “You know, Capri,

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