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Gianni Versace
Italian fashion designer (1946–1997)
This article is about the fashion designer. For his company, see Versace.
Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace (Italian:[dʒoˈvannimaˈriːaˈdʒanniverˈsaːtʃe];[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. He also designed costumes for theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Princess Diana, Whitney Houston, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Madonna, Elton John, Tupac Shakur, Joan Collins and many other celebrities, he was one of the first designers to link fashion to the music world.[4] He and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the international party scene.[5] The place where he was born and raised, Reggio di Calabria, greatly influenced his career.
On 15 July 1997, he was murdered outside his Miami Beach mansion, Casa Casuarina, by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.[6][7&# This article is about the fashion designer. For his company, see Versace. Gianni Versace (Reggio Calabria, 2 December 1946 – Miami Beach, Florida, 15 July 1997) was an Italianfashiondesigner and founder of Versace, an international fashion house. The fashion house also produces accessories, fragrances, makeup and home furnishings as well as clothes. Versaci also designed costumes for the theatre and movies, and was a friend of Elton John, Sting, and Princess Diana among many others. Openly gay, Versace and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the international party scene. On July 15, 1997, he was murdered outside his Miami Beach home, the former Casa Casuarina,[1] at the age of 50 by spree killerAndrew Cunanan. On 15 July 1997, Andrew Cunanan fatally shot Versace on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion.[2] Eight days later, Cunanan shot himself on a boat with the same gun he used to shoot Versace.[3] Versace's body was cremated and his ashes were returned to the family's estate n “I don’t believe in good taste”, Versace once said. From working at his mother’s boutique to setting up his own company, discover how Gianni Versace became a legend and changed the world of fashion forever. Born in 1946 in Reggio, Calabria, Italian designer Gianni Versace grew up surrounded by dresses in his mother’s boutique and worked there after he finished school. But in 1972, he decided to move to Milan, which is when his career took off, working for established ateliers like Complice, Mario Valentino, and Callaghan, designing his first collections for them. In 1978, he presented his first Gianni Versace collection for women, setting up his own company, Gianni Versace SpA, with the support of the Italian fashion family the Girombellis, and eventually becoming known for his elegant, subversive and sensual outfits that celebrated women. Inspired by pop culture, celebrity, and rock, but also by Italian Baroque and Etruscan symbols and even the prostitutes that lived in the neig
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