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Donatella Versace was born in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, the youngest of four children; Santo, Gianni, and Tina. Her father, Antonio Versace, helped run the family coal mining business, and her mother, Francesca Versace (née Olandese), was a seamstress for a fashion company before setting up her own fashion boutique. [6] .
Apr 3, 2014 · Born on May 2, 1955, in Reggio Calabria, Italy, designer Donatella Versace is one of the best-known names in fashion today. She is the younger sister of the late designer Gianni Versace.
When her brother Gianni was murdered in July 1997, Donatella took the reins of the Versace empire, keeping it a major player in the fashion industry. It was Donatella's daughter Allegra - then aged 11 - who inherited the lion's share of Gianni's fortune - a 50 per cent stake in the Versace brand.
Versace was shot and killed on 15 July 1997, at the age of 50, on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion as he returned from a morning walk on Ocean Drive. In the aftermath of the highly publicised manhunt, most of the Versace family, including Donatella, moved temporarily to a secluded private resort in the Caribbean.
Dec 5, 2017 · Twenty years after taking over the family business in tragic circumstances, Donatella Versace is dominating the fashion agenda. She talks about supermodels, grief and why the TV version of her ...
Jun 21, 2017 · Given that she has designed the main line since 1997 — when her brother and the founder of the label, Gianni Versace, was shot outside his Miami Beach home — you can safely say Versace is...
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This past year marked the 20th anniversary of Gianni Versace’s murder, a date widely publicized by a television series on the event that was unauthorized by the Versace family. But 2017 also marked the year in which Donatella surpassed her brother as Versace’s longest serving creative director.
