Donatella Versace
Donatella Versace
Donatella Francesca Versaceis an Italian fashion designer and current vice president of the Versace Group, as well as its chief designer. She owns a 20% share of the business. During the 1980s, Donatella's brother, Gianni Versace, launched a perfume dedicated to her, Blonde, and gave her her own diffusion label, Versus. Versace took over the label's design after her brother's death...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth2 May 1955
CityReggio Calabria, Italy
CountryItaly
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.
I like perfume and flowers.
Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.
There's time to slow down, after you're dead.
I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.
I do think that exercise is important, not only to keep you in shape but also for your state of mind. However, I am not fanatical about it.
I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.
I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.
Giving up my heels was harder than giving up the drugs.
You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.
Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.