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Gianni Versace
Personal Information
 Name Gianni Versace
 Nationality Italian
 Birth date November 2 1946(1946--)
 Birth place Reggio Calabria, Italy
 Date of death July 15 1997 (aged 52)
 Place of death Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.
Working Life
 Label Name Versace
 Awards and Prizes 
Gianni Versace (December 2, 1946 – July 15, 1997) was an accomplished Italian designer of both clothing and theater costumes. He was influenced by Andy Warhol, Ancient Roman and Greek art as well as modern abstract art; he is considered one of the most colorful and talented designers of the late 20th century.

Gianni was the founder of famous fashion tag Versace. The first boutique was opened in Milan's Via della Spiga in 1978, and its popularity was immediate. Today, Versace is one of the world's leading international fashion houses.

Versace designs, markets and distributes luxury clothing, accessories, fragrances, makeup and home furnishings under the various brands of the Versace Group.

Biography

Early life

Gianni Versace was born in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, where he grew up with his older brother Santo and younger sister Donatella, along with their father and dressmaker mother, Francesca. An older sister, Tina, died at the age of 12 from an improperly treated tetanus infection.[1]

Gianni began his apprenticeship at a young age, helping his mother find precious stones and gold braid with which to embroider dresses. He studied architecture before moving to Milan at the age of 25 to work in fashion design.

In the mid-Seventies, his knits drew the attention of head-hunters at Genny and Callaghan. Complice hired him to design their leather and suede collections, and a few years later, encouraged by his success, Versace presented his first signature collection for women at the Palazzo della Permanente Art Museum of Milan. His first menswear collection followed in September of the same year. After presenting his menswear collection he joined Jorge Saud, who would become later and also partner with Giorgio Armani.

Personal life

Gianni Versace met Antonio D'Amico, a model, in 1982. The couple embarked on a long-term relationship that lasted 11 years, until Versace's untimely death. During that time Antonio worked as designer for the Versace sports line.

Versace's will left his male partner D'Amico with a pension of 50 million lire (about $26,000) a month (for life), and the right to live in any of Versace's homes in Italy and the United States. D'Amico now runs his own fashion design company.

Death

One July morning in the summer of 1997, returning from his customary walk on Ocean Drive, Versace was gunned down outside his ocean-front mansion in Miami Beach, Florida. He was murdered by spree killer Andrew Cunanan, who committed suicide shortly after the murder. Police reported that Andrew Cunanan had committed suicide using the same handgun that had been used to murder Gianni Versace.[2]

Versace was buried in Lake Como, Italy.

In September 1997, Versace's brother Santo Versace, together with Jorge Saud were announced as the new CEOs of the Versace holding. Gianni's sister, Donatella Versace, is the new head of design. Elton John dedicated his 1997 album The Big Picture to Versace.

Filmography

Costume designer

  • Ballet for tino (1997)
  • Judge Dredd (1995)
  • Shakespeare Shorts (1996, TV series)
  • Showgirls (1995)
  • Kika (1993)
  • Vacanze di Natale (also known as Christmas Vacations, 1991)
  • Cin cin (also known as A Fine Romance, 1991)
  • As Long as It's Love (1989)
  • Miami Vice (1989, TV series)

Actor

  • Catwalk (1996)
  • ''Spiceworld (film) (1997) - Scenes were deleted because of his death before the movie premiered.

Thanks Gianni, With Love ballet

In July 2007, a specially-written ballet was performed in La Scala, Milan to mark the 10th anniversary of the fashion designer's death.

Thanks Gianni, With Love has been put together by French choreographer Maurice Bejart, for whom Versace designed many stage costumes.

Awards

Notes

1. ^ Collins, Lauren (September 24th, 2007), "Mondo Donatella", The New Yorker: 158
2. ^ Cunanan: more questions than answers. CNN (1997-07-25). Retrieved on 2007-06-29.

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Versace

Private
Founded 1978
Headquarters Milan, Italy

Key people Gianni Versace, Founder
Santo Versace, Chairman & Co-CEO
Giancarlo Di Risio, Director & Co-CEO
Donatella Versace, Artistic Director
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Fashion design is the applied art dedicated to the design of clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time.
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Andy Warhol

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Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way.
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Versace

Private
Founded 1978
Headquarters Milan, Italy

Key people Gianni Versace, Founder
Santo Versace, Chairman & Co-CEO
Giancarlo Di Risio, Director & Co-CEO
Donatella Versace, Artistic Director
Industry Consumer Goods
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Country Italy
Region Calabria
Province Reggio Calabria (RC)
Mayor Giuseppe Scopelliti (since June 1, 2002)

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Il Canto degli Italiani
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Santo Versace is the president and co-chief executive officer of Gianni Versace SpA, based in Milan, Italy.

He was born on December 16, 1944, in Reggio Calabria to Antonio Versace, a wholesaler, and Francesca Olandese, a dress maker and shop owner.
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Donatella Versace (born May 2, 1955) is an affluent Italian fashion designer, like her famous brother, Gianni Versace, the founder of the Versace clothing empire. Her current title is Vice-President of the Versace Group and Chief Designer of the fashion line.
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An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. In an infection, the infecting organism seeks to utilize the host's resources to multiply (usually at the expense of the host).
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Antonio D'Amico (born 1959 in southern Italy, raised in Milan) has been a model and an Italian fashion designer. [1]

His life so far has been marked by his relationship with the world famous designer Gianni Versace.
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Ocean Drive is a street in South Beach—the southern part of Miami Beach, Florida. It is known for its Art Deco hotels. The street is the cream of the city's Art Deco District, which is home to about 800 preserved buildings.
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