Versace Net Worth 2020

Short introduction

Gianni Versace (born December 2, 1946 – July 15, 1997) – Italian fashion designer and founder of the Versace International Fashion House, which produces perfume, cosmetics, accessories, clothing and household items. Versace creates costumes for film, theater and opera production. He was a friend of Eric Clapton, Princess Diana from Wales, Naomi Campbell, Duran Duran, Madonna, Elton John, Cher, Sting and many other celebrities. One of the first fashion designers to combine fashion and music. Gianni and his partner Antonio D’Amiko regularly attended fashion parties.

On July 15, 1997, Versace was killed by Serial Killer Andrew Kunenen on the verge of his house, Casa Casuarina, in Miami Beach, Florida, at the age of 50.

Early Life

Giovanni Maria Versace was born on December 2, 1946 in Reggio Calabria, Italy, in the family of Seamstress Francesca Versace and her husband. Gianni grew up with his sister and sister of Donatella’s sister. Gianni’s sister Tina died because of Tetanus at the age of 12 years. In his youth, Gianni liked the history of ancient Greece, who played a major role in the development of Italy. He attended Lyceum Classico Tommaso Campanella, where he studied Latin and ancient Greece, but did not complete the course. American artist Andy Warhol also has a big influence on him.

Career

He began his career in his hometown at Francesca Versace’s fashion studio, which belonged to his mother. Studio’s main customers are representatives from rich families in the Calabria region – the wives of business people and top managers. Gianni helps his mother sew clothes, get accessories and also get cloth. Here he learns sketches, drawing, cutting cloth and sewing clothes. In 1972 Versace moved to Milan and became a guest designer of several fashion lanes, including Genny, Callaghan and Ketib. In 1973 he became a designer byblos, the youth line from Genny Fashion House, and in 1977 developed his complicated line with his own request.

On March 28, 1978, Versace presented the first collection of women’s clothing brands at Palazzo Della Permanente Art Museum in Milan. The first full fashion show took place in September in the same year. In 1978 Gianni opened a boutique on Milan’s most prestigious shopping street – Via Della Spiga. Also in 1978, Gianni founded his own home mode, Gianni Versace Spa, and appointed his sister Santo as his president and sister Donatella as vice president. Donatella is responsible for creative supervision and acts as Versace’s main advisor. Gianni also recruited Donatella’s husband Paul Beck as the director of the men’s clothing line.

In the 1980s, Gianni developed clothes for his own brand and explored a new business area. In 1981 he launched Wangi Women Gianni Versace, in 1984 the Aroma of the son of L’Homme. In 1982, Versace expanded its business by producing jewelry and household appliances including furniture, textiles, and tableware under the Home Versace brand.

In 1989, Versace declared himself in the world of Haute Couture and began creating a Couture Haute collection under the Atelier Versace Brand and Staging Show on the Ritz Hotel in Paris. He used the most famous photographers and models for advertising and fashion campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s. The fashion home products are represented by Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer and many others.

He fostered intensive top model cult, paying the fashionable fashion model and formed their image as a superstar in a mass culture. According to Donatella Versace, “Gianni created this phenomenon by bringing the best model to the podium at the same time.”

Gianni Versace reached the peak of his fame in the early 1990s with his famous client – Madonna and Putri Wales Diana.

Career spotlight.

Versace was shot by Andrew Kunenen on the Casa Casuarina Mansion stairs on Miami Beach on July 15, 1997 after returning from the streets throughout the ocean. Usually Versace sent his assistant to the morning newspaper to the news cafe, but on that decisive day, he decided to go alone. Versace’s death was recorded at 9:21 a.m. at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Eight days later, Künenen committed suicide at the boat house surrounded by a police ring. Künenen was obsessed with Versace and often boasted his acquaintances with famous fashion designers and other famous people. The FBI agent believes Versace and Kunenen meets in San Francisco, but is not sure what kind of relationship they have. Reporter Maureen Orth published an article in the Vanity Fair magazine in 2008 claiming that Künenen and Versace met at the San Francisco nightclub in 1990 and tended to get closer. However, the Versace family was always firmly denied the fact that Gianni and the killer were together.

Gianni Versace’s body was cremated and ash was buried in the basement at Maltrasio Cemetery (Cernobbio municipality) near Lake Como.

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