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 not frivolous.
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.
I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.
Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.
In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.
The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.
I don't like my physique at all.
I think there was a time when I was too strict and controlling. I think I asphyxiated my children.
I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.
I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.
In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.
Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers.