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Donatella Versace is an Italian fashion designer, businesswoman, and the sister of the late Gianni Versace, founder of the luxury fashion brand Versace. She has played a crucial role in the development of the Versace brand and the rise of supermodels in the 1990s.
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Donatella Francesca Versace (Italian: [dona’tella fran’tSeska ver’sa:tSe]; born 2 May 1955), sometimes simply referred to mononymously as Donatella, is an Italian fashion designer, businesswoman, socialite, and model. She is the sister of Gianni Versace, founder of the luxury fashion company Versace, with whom she worked closely on the development of the brand and in particular its combining of Italian luxury with pop culture and celebrity.
Upon Gianni’s death in 1997, she inherited a portion of the Versace brand and became its creative director. She is currently the brand’s chief creative officer. Along with her brother Gianni, she is widely credited for the supermodel phenomenon of the 1990s by casting editorial models on the runway.
Donatella Versace is an Italian fashion designer, businesswoman, socialite, and model. She is the sister of Gianni Versace, the founder of the luxury fashion company Versace, and she has worked closely with him on the development of the brand.
Upon Gianni Versace’s death in 1997, Donatella Versace inherited a portion of the Versace brand and became its creative director. She is currently the brand’s chief creative officer.
Donatella Versace is widely credited, along with her brother Gianni, for the supermodel phenomenon of the 1990s by casting editorial models on the runway.
Donatella Versace holds the title of Grand Ufficiale dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, which is a prestigious honor in Italy.
Donatella Francesca Versace is sometimes simply referred to mononymously as Donatella, which is a common practice for well-known public figures.
Fashion is all about happiness. It’s fun. It’s important. But it’s not medicine.
Italian fashion designer
In Italian there is an expression: We don’t sleep on the fame.
Italian fashion designer
Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.
Italian fashion designer
Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
Italian fashion designer
Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.
Italian fashion designer
I don’t like my physique at all.
Italian fashion designer
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.
Italian fashion designer
Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won’t recognize them if they change that much.
Italian fashion designer
I don’t like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
Italian fashion designer
I like perfume and flowers.
Italian fashion designer
It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.
Italian fashion designer