2018
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decades after she was forced to become the head of the house, she seeUs Ånalla reada to faKe the Xast. »1 aU sho_inO my new collection here not because I am nostalgic; I am not nostalOiK · 1 liSe to looS at the future, not the Xast · Jut JeKause this JuildinO has UeUories. Oood tiUes, so Uana ÅOhts, so Uana disaOreeUents, and so UuKh fun as _ell. *einO here feels liSe KoUinO JaKS hoUe.¼ This, it turns out, is all part of an important process for the desiOner, _hose Jrother _as infaUousla Silled t_o deKades aOo on the steXs of his Uansion in5iaUi. she says. ‘I go online and listen to what the millennials want. This is not because of my age, or any sense of wanting to ¹staa in touKhº, Jut JeKause this is where the power lies. They are the ones who decide what is going to happen. The KonsuUer is Sea.¼ them in a new way. ‘But this is really a celebration of what Versace is all about.’ The result is a collection for men and women called The Tribute Collection. There are printed shirts, T-shirts, dresses, sSirts, Reans, JratoXs and shoulder JaOs, as _ell as shoes, bags and denim pieces adorned with the house Oold 5edusa saUJol. company. It was not, she KonÅdes, a role she _anted. As Gianni’s muse and helper, she’d had a happy tiUe ser^inO _hat she Kould not Sno_ _ould turn out to be a rather charmed apprenticeship, designing her own line, Versus, and being instrumental in art-directing the famous ad campaigns shot by photographers including :iKhard A^edon. ;he a l s o c e m e n t e d t h e house’s relationship “I am SHOWING my new COLLECTION here not because I am NOSTALGIC ; I am NOT nostalgic – I like to look at the FUTURE , not the PAST ” _ith roKS »n¼ roll, JefriendinO artists suKh as -lton 2ohn and 8rinKe, as _ell as the hiXhoX KoUUunita and 0olla_ood stars, in^itinO theU to Roin the >ersaKe Kreati^e ¹faUilaº. But after Gianni’s death, by her own admission, Versace struggled with her grief and the pressure of holding the business together. But she has succeeded, and now, two This page top: Supermodels Carla Bruni, +TI]LiI ;Khi ٺ er 6Iomi +ImpJeTT Cindy Crawford and Helena Christensen on the Versace catwalk, 2017; Bella Hadid modelling SS18 Versace Opposite page: Donatella with Gianni, 1984; Kaia Gerber in the 2017 Versace campaign thinS _e nailed it ¼ ;he Xlaaed around _ith the prints, refreshing some of the patterns and interpreting 12 13
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