St. Valentine may have died for love but love needn’t hurt. See our edit of all that the heart desires this Valentine’s Day.
Tradition has it that St. Valentine was a third century Roman priest who died for love—not for his own, but for the young couples whom he wed in defiance of a decree. Emperor Claudius II forbade young men to marry their loves since it was thought that singletons made better soldiers. Today, the saint’s skull is housed in a glass reliquary in a small basilica in Rome.
In a similar vein, (ahem), sculptor Anish Kapoor said that, “Red of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it’s inside out, red.” Red is the colour of a true love’s heart and perhaps not coincidentally, the Valentino L’Amour Shoulder Bag.