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
Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.
Do not go into trends. Do not allow fashion take you over, choose who you want to be and what do you want to show with your clothes and lifestyle.
I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself.
Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.
I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are
I don't want to suggest go shorter (because) I invented long. It's become so pretentious in fashion, but it's about educating the style of the people. And people have to educate themselves and express their individuality.
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.