Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versacewas an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, make-up and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also designed costumes for the theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Diana, Princess of Wales, Naomi Campbell, Madonna, Elton John, Cher, Sting and many other celebrities, he was the first designer to link fashion to the music world. Openly gay, Versace and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth2 December 1946
CityReggio Calabria, Italy
CountryItaly
Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.
I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.
Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.
Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.
I want to be a designer for my time.
I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.
Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
I want to be the joy to people through my work.
I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.
Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.
In those days, when I was a little kid, I met the truer more authentic people of my life. The men were so pure, strong, honest, and faithful unto death - with an incredible sense of respect for a boss.
The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.