Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versacewas an Italian fashion designer and founder of Versace, an international fashion house, which produces accessories, fragrances, make-up and home furnishings as well as clothes. He also designed costumes for the theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Diana, Princess of Wales, Naomi Campbell, Madonna, Elton John, Cher, Sting and many other celebrities, he was the first designer to link fashion to the music world. Openly gay, Versace and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth2 December 1946
CityReggio Calabria, Italy
CountryItaly
Gianni Versace quotes about
I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.
Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
What women need today is classic things with an age, with fantasy, with a quality. Dresses you can live with. Sometimes it's the fabrics who win, sometimes it's the shape, but I always rework on themes that make Versace a classic name with serenity.
For me, the summer will be pure gray -- mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
My fantasy is to leave options for women -- to make their individuality come out, to try to accomplish what they want, and I think women want to look beautiful. (It's) less about jacket(s) and more about shirt(s) and about sweaters, about T-shirts and about freedom.
(It's) irregular (and) cut in a different way.
A lot of devore fabric, see-through. (It) is a kind of collection you can combine in a different way.
I want always to be positive.
You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.
My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.
I watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men.
I hate the traffic over there. Why don't they start to build moving pathways to replace all the streets? I see New York in a very futuristic way, but they must do something new.