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Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni maˈriːa ˈdʒanni verˈsaːtʃe]; [a] 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.
Donatella Versace was born in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, the youngest of four children; Santo, Gianni, and Tina.Her father, Antonio Versace, helped run the family coal mining business, and her mother, Francesca Versace (née Olandese), was a seamstress for a fashion company before setting up her own fashion boutique. [6]
In 1993, Donatella Versace added the Young Versace and Versus lines, [12] and from 1994 the company began referring to her as co-designer for Gianni Versace. [16] Also in 1994, the brand gained international coverage from the black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley , referred in the media as "that dress".
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[15] Versace later revealed that the dress was the turning point of her career, saying that the media now had confidence in her own work, after the death of Gianni Versace. [15] She declared to the Canadian press, "It was an unexpected success. The next day she [Jennifer Lopez] was everywhere and people were talking about her in that dress.
Allegra Versace is the daughter of Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace and American ex-fashion model Paul Beck, [5] and the niece of fashion designer Gianni Versace. She was raised outside Milan, Italy, with her younger brother Daniel. [6] Sir Elton John gave her a piano [1] [7] that she admits she never learned to play. [8]
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With her long neck, slender figure, fine features, and copper-toned skin, Iman was an instant success in the fashion world, though she herself insists that her looks are merely typically Somali. She became a muse to many prominent designers, including Halston, Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein, Issey Miyake and Donna Karan.