Donatella Versace

At 69 years old, Donatella Versace has this physical status:

Donatella Versace (Italian) is a fashion designer, businesswoman, socialite, and model born 2 May 1955. She is the niece of Gianni Versace, the founder of the luxurious fashion company Versace, with whom she worked closely on the brand's growth, particularly the merging of Italian luxury with pop culture and fame. She inherited a part of the Versace brand and became its creative director following Gianni's death in 1997. She is now the brand's chief creative officer. She and her brother Gianni are widely credited for the 1990s supermodel revival by casting editorial models on the runway.

Early life and education

Donatella Versace was born in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, and was the youngest of four children; Santo, Gianni, and Tina. Antonio, her father, assisted with the family coal mining industry, and Francesca, her mother, was a seamstress for a fashion store before opening her own fashion store. Tina, her older sister, died of tetanus infection after 12 years. Donatella, who was always close to her brother Gianni, was persuaded by him to dye her hair blonde at 11 years old in honor of Italian singer Patty Pravo, of whom he was a big fan.

Donatella's mid-1970s Florence studied literature and languages. She'd commute to Milan to work with Gianni, a Callaghan fashion company, on the weekends. Donatella's mother did not approve, preferring her to concentrate on her studies, and we'll continue to focus on Donatella during unexpected visits to Florence.

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Career

Donatella said, "I knew I was going to work in fashion; I really didn't think about nothing else." Donatella and Santo were twins in Milan in 1976, when they met Gianni Gianni. In 1977, the three traveled to the United States for a three-week tour in the hopes of launching the Versace brand.

Donatella was employed as vice president in 1978, but Gianni collaborated with Gianni on several fronts, including branding, establishing the brand's logo, and designing the brand's accessories, shoes, and handbags. Gianni sent Donatella to an auction, where she placed the winning bid on the palazzo at Via Gesù 12 in Milan, which would be the Versace headquarters and showroom.

Donatella is widely believed to have been both a creative partner and muse to Gianni. Gianni gifted Donatella with the new Blonde perfume in 1989 and entrusted the Versus diffusion line to her – even giving her a yellow diamond ring to commemorate the occasion. Donatella took over much of the decision-making for the Versace brand between 1996 and 1997, with Gianni Versace recovering from a left ear cancer.

Versace has described her design process as being grounded in images; "I don't look at the clothes with my eyes; rather, I look through photographs – a photograph or a video"; and she is often blamed for creating the Versace look. Donatella worked with fashion photographer Richard Avedon on the Spring-Summer 1980 campaign, his first for the brand, and Avedon will art direct Avedon on the Spring-Summer 1993 campaign.

Gianni was killed on July 15, 1997, outside the reconstructed Casa Casuarina, also known as Versace Mansion in Miami, Florida. The majority of the Versace family, including Donatella, migrated to a remote private resort in the Caribbean following the highly publicized murder and manhunt. Santo Versace's brother, Santo Versace, inherited 30% of Versace following Gianni's death, while her daughter, Allegra Versace, inherited 50%. "This book is a salute to a great artist," Gianni Versace's book The Art of Being You, which was published posthumously in 1997, includes a dedication to Gianni, a man with a passion for art, to someone who shared an incredible love for art, to a person who adored art and artists and always admired them, including our brother Gianni."

Donatella Versace, a year and three days after Gianni's death, held her first haute couture exhibition at the Hôtel Ritz Paris on July 18, 1998. As her brother did every season, she built her runway over the hotel's swimming pool, this time using sheer glass. In a special exhibition of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from October 2002 to January 2003, Gianni and Donatella's best known Versace clothing was on display.

Donatella has created advertising campaigns for Versace, including Madonna, Courtney Love, Christina Aguilera, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Demi Moore, Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, and January Jones. Jennifer Lopez, also known as the "Jungle-Dress," was worn by Lopez at the 42nd Grammy Awards in 2000, she conceived the Green Versace dress. She appeared in the AW15 advertising campaign of its direct competitor Givenchy in 2015.

Donatella designed the Palazzo Versace Australia resort on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, which opened in September 2000 and played a key role in the construction of the Palazzo Versace Dubai, the second Palazzo Versace hotel, which opened in November 2016. For the Life Ball, she created a Mini Cooper. Donatella Versace held a tribute exhibition in September 2017 in honor of her brother.

Versace Beck (born June 30, 1986) and her late husband, American model Paul Beck, have two children: Allegra Versace Beck (born 30 June 1986), and her son Daniel Versace Beck (born 1989). In 2000, she and Paul Beck's affair came to an end.

She battled a heroin use for 18 years before 2005. She quit in 2014 as a heavy smoker.

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Awards

• 1996: De Beers Diamonds International Award for her design of a gold and diamond tiara, produced by Gianni Versace.
• 2004: Bambi Award for Fashion
• 2005: World Fashion Award as Designer of the Year, at the Women's World Awards
• 2007: Honored along with Gianni Versace by The City of Beverly Hills and the Rodeo Drive Committee for their contributions to the fashion world with a Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award.
• 2008: FGI Superstar Award.^[2]
• 2008: Honorary chairman of Fashion Fringe
• 2009: Honorary chairman of Fashion Fringe for the second year running
• 2010: Woman of the Year by Glamour
• 2012: Speaker at the Oxford Union.
• 2012,^[3] 2016: Fashion Designer of the Year by Glamour
• 2017: Fashion Icon of the Year award by the British Fashion Council
• 2018: First woman to be named as the Designer of the Year at the GQ Men of the Year Awards in the UK and in China.
• 2018: International CFDA Award
• 2018: Fashion Icon award at GQ Awards Berlin.