Vogue on Gianni Versace

Vogue on Designers

by Charlotte Sinclair

Gianni Versace created a fashion house that defined late twentieth-century glamour, invented the supermodel, and sanctioned in the public consciousness a supremely self-assured feminine sexuality. His debut line in 1978 was instantly successful; in the Eighties, his extravagant designs and his vision of powerful women defined the era, and culminated in the Nineties with the supermodel phenomenon - his designs worn by those glamazons who featured on every Vogue cover. The book reveals how the more brazen elements of his design - the jewelled embroidery, the bondage straps, the safety-pin gowns - were predicated on supremely skilled tailoring, deft use of materials, and innovative techniques. Alongside are Vogue 's eye-witness accounts of the Versace lifestyle - the palazzos and parties, the art, the celebrity friends. Vogue on Gianni Versace is a celebration of a designer and a house that, in only 19 years, came to dominate the catwalk and the red carpet.

Genres: Fashion, Nonfiction

158 pages, Hardcover

First published June 4, 2015

Reviews

[Katy Grace · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice and succinct, really wish the photographs were dated.

[Yoana A. V. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very surface level information with repetitive and unnecessary description words rather than actual information about his life and his designs, whatevs

[Steel The Vampiress · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gianni Versace may your spirit guide me in my journey as an artist🙏