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Gianni Versace

Gianni Versace

Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman

Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace ( 2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997) was an Italian fashion designer, socialite and businessman. He was the founder of Versace, an international luxury-fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings and clothes. He was the most important Italian designer in the world, and he also designed costumes for theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Princess Diana, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Madonna, Elton John, Tupac Shakur and many other celebrities, he was one of the first designers to link fashion to the music world. He and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the international party scene. The place where he was born and raised, Reggio Calabria, greatly influenced his career, bringing color and revolution and upsetting the canons of those times.

On 15 July 1997, Versace was shot and killed outside his Miami Beach mansion, Casa Casuarina by spree killer Andrew Cunanan.

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New YorkI 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.

PeopleMenLifeIn those days, when I was a little kid, I met the truer more authentic people of my life. The men were so pure, strong, honest, and faithful unto death - with an incredible sense of respect for a boss.

FashionTimeI want to be a designer for my time.

FashionSummerFor 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.

FashionWomanStyleFashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.

FashionI don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

FashionDreamsMy dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

FashionBeautyWomanI 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.

FashionI 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.

MusicLoveThe first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.

LifeI try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

ClothesComfortComfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.

ConfidenceWomanClothesWomen are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

FashionI like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

FashionI'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

FashionWomanPerfumeEleganceMenPerfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

FashionWomanClothesI really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

WomanClothesI liked women as a shape to dress.

DreamsBooksMy only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

FashionMoneyEven 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.

FashionDesigning came to me. I didn't have to move.

FashionI want to be the joy to people through my work.

MotivationIt is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.

FashionWomanClothesYou dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.

MoneyFreedomI have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

MotivationConfidencePersistenceI never fall down. I always fight.

FashionFashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

FashionStyleGlamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.

FashionI think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

FashionBe yourselfThat 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.

FashionStyleDo 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.

MotivationTimeI am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

PeopleIn the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

FashionBe yourselfDon't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

FashionBe yourselfClothesStyleDecide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

I want always to be positive.