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
For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.
Fashion is not frivolous.
Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.
Hollywood is a very inspiring place.
I love the strength of white blonde. Some people talk about having disasters while dyeing their hair - in my opinion you can never have a blonde disaster . . . I am always trying the latest products - whatever is new goes on my hair.
I was always crazy even before the drugs,
Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.
I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.
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.
I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.
The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.
I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.