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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.
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".
The black, floor-skimming dress became iconic because of its unusual, and revealing design. Designed by Gianni Versace, the same dress had been modelled by Helena Christiensen on the SS/94 catwalk.
The dress is perhaps Versace's best-known creation, [5] after Jennifer Lopez's green dress, as it received considerable global coverage in newspapers and magazines around the world for a long time after the event and was credited with boosting Hurley's profile, propelling her from being almost unknown to worldwide media recognition.
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
Donatella Versace is paying tribute to her brother, Gianni Versace, on the 25th anniversary of his death. On Friday, the 67-year-old fashion mogul posted a black-and-white photo of herself and ...
[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.
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