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
We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.
I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.
How do I keep young? Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!
In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.
I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.
In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.
You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.
Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful - that was the '80s, and that didn't help women.
You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn't. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over.
Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.
To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.
The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.
When I work, I wear pants usually because I want to be comfortable. I wear dark colors, especially in winter, because I don't want to concentrate on myself but on what I'm working on. Because I really, really love clothes, I can start to think too much about myself. It's distracting.