Gianni Versace was 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, D...
July 15, 1997, Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Place Of Birth
Reggio Calabria
Profession
Fashion designer, Designer, Costume designer, Actor, Production Designer
Nationality
Italy
Parents
Antonio Versace, Francesca Versace
Siblings
Donatella Versace, Santo Versace, Tina Versace
Partner
Antonio D'Amico
Nicknames
Giovanni Maria Versace
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
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Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.
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I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
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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.
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I want always to be positive.
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My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
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I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.
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I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.
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Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.
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I liked women as a shape to dress.
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Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
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I want to be a designer for my time.
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I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.
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I want to be the joy to people through my work.
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I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
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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.
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I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
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I never fall down. I always fight.
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I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
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I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
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It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
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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.
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In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
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Fact
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Fifteen years after his untimely death, Versace's lavish Miami Beach (FL) mansion was sold and converted into a 10-suite luxury boutique hotel called "The Villa".
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Uncle of brother Santo's two children, Francesca and Antonio Versace.
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Uncle of Allegra (b. 1986) and Daniel Versace (b. 1989).
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Brother of Santo Versace.
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Close friend of Elton John. At concerts on the anniversary of Versace's death, John has been known to dedicate the song "Candle in the Wind"--reportedly Versace's favorite of all of John's work--to his beloved friend.
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Is mentioned in Eminem's song Criminal on the Marshall Mathers LP.
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