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
I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
I never fall down. I always fight.
Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.
In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are
(It's) irregular (and) cut in a different way.
I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.
Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.