“I don't believe in good taste' – Gianni Versace To mark the 25th anniversary of his death, we remember some of Italian fashion designer’s best soundbites
was returning to his villa in Miami Beach after a morning walk, only to find his murderer, armed with a pistol, waiting for him outside his home. He was 50 years old when he was tragically shot and though a quarter of a century has passed since then, the waves of influence he pulsed through the fashion industry, and beyond, are still felt today.
Credited with creating the ‘supermodel’ phenomenon, the runway shows were spectacular meetings of a fierce, empowered beauty swathed in fantasy. “He made fashion a pop culture phenomenon,” Claudia Schiffer, the model and muse to Gianniin 2020. “We’d walk to an amazing Prince track with hundreds of photographers lining the catwalk, only to see him sitting there on the front row.
“I think any creative activity brings risk with it. If an artist, a painter, a journalist, a director wants to do something new, he has to take risks. It’s always easier to do things that already exists, things for which you have a model. Designing new things, that’s difficult. That’s the best thing about this job, and it’s the risk that attracts me more than anything.”“I don’t believe in good taste.
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