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
Fashion is not frivolous.
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.
I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.
Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'
New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.
The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.
In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.
I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.
Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.
For me, music gives a voice to fashion.
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.