Last Friday, New York Magazine attended a screening of Valentino: The Last Emperor at City Cinemas and stuck around afterwards for a fabulous Q&A session with Vogue's André Leon Talley and the fashion doc's director, Matt Tyrnauer. The two men discussed everything from Valentino special valet who exclusively tends to his pugs poo to the influence male models have over Valentino and Giammetti.

Audience Question: How was it doing this as your first film?

Matt Tyrnauer: "When Bruce Weber [the photographer] heard I was doing a film, he said, “Oh, you’ve never done a film before. I’ll take you out to lunch and we can talk about it.” He said, “Hire male models to work for you. It doesn’t matter if they know how to do anything; you’ll get double the time with Valentino and Giancarlo. And let me tell you, no better advice has been dispensed. We did hire male models, and eventually the job they ended up doing was putting the mikes on Valentino and Giancarlo before we’d start filming each day. You know, it has to go under the clothes. Well, they loved that. They’d say, “Is it time to get our mikes on yet?”

And you thought Karl Lagerfeld was the only one with an affinity for beautiful male friends.