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Gianni Versace

Italian fashion designer (1946–1997)

This article is about the fashion designer. For his company, see Versace.

Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace (Italian:[dʒoˈvannimaˈriːaˈdʒanniverˈsaːtʃe];[a] 2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997) was an Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman. He was the founder of Versace, an international luxury-fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings and clothes. He also designed costumes for theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Princess Diana, Whitney Houston, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Madonna, Elton John, Tupac Shakur, Joan Collins and many other celebrities, he was one of the first designers to link fashion to the music world.[4] He and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the international party scene.[5] The place where he was born and raised, Reggio di Calabria, greatly influenced his career.

On 15 July 1997, he was murdered outside his Miami Beach mansion, Casa Casuarina, by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.[6][7&#

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Gianni Versace created a fashion dynasty imprinted with a Versace vision. Every inch of his home, Casa Casuarina, an opulent, ocean-fronted Miami mansion, was covered in the Versace Medusa head.

  • Born Gianni Versace on December 2, 1946 in Reggio Calabria, Italy.
  • He was taught by his dressmaker mother, making his first dress aged nine in 1955.
  • He presented his first Gianni Versace collection in 1978.
  • With a keen eye for talent, he worked with top photographers such as Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber and Steven Meisel, and his favourite - Richard Avedon.
  • He was also credited with creating the supermodel, by agreeing to pay high sums to Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington.
  • In 1982 he met his long-term partner Antonio D'Amico, with whom he enjoyed a 15 year relationship until his death.
  • In 1997, the designer was tragically shot dead on the steps of his Miami home after arriving home from his usual morning walk.
  • He left a fashion empire worth £500 million behind him, 50 per cent of which he left to his niece Allegra Versace for w
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    How Gianni Versace became a legendary fashion designer

    “I don’t believe in good taste”, Versace once said. From working at his mother’s boutique to setting up his own company, discover how Gianni Versace became a legend and changed the world of fashion forever.

    Flamboyant designer Gianni Versace’s life

    Born in 1946 in Reggio, Calabria, Italian designer Gianni Versace grew up surrounded by dresses in his mother’s boutique and worked there after he finished school. But in 1972, he decided to move to Milan, which is when his career took off, working for established ateliers like Complice, Mario Valentino, and Callaghan, designing his first collections for them.

    In 1978, he presented his first Gianni Versace collection for women, setting up his own company, Gianni Versace SpA, with the support of the Italian fashion family the Girombellis, and eventually becoming known for his elegant, subversive and sensual outfits that celebrated women. Inspired by pop culture, celebrity, and rock, but also by Italian Baroque and Etruscan symbols and even the prostitutes that lived in the neig

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