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Gianni Versace
Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace was an Italian fashion designer and businessman. He was the founder of Versace, an international luxury-fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings and clothes. He also designed costumes for theatre and films. As a friend of Eric Clapton, Princess Diana, Whitney Houston, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Madonna, Elton John, Tupac Shakur,…
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business · Italian fashion designer (1946–1997) · entrepreneur · designer · costume designer · fashion designer · dressmaker · also Gianni Versace, Giovanni Versace, Giovanni Maria Versace, Versace
Born 2 December 1946 · Died 15 July 1997 · Q264490
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Gianni Versace – Emperor of Dreams - Where to Watch
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2023· 1 entry
Yahoo: Who Killed Gianni Versace & Why?
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2022· 2 entries
CNN: Gianni Versace’s lavish New York mansion is on sale for $70 million
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New York Post: Gianni Versace’s former NYC mansion lists for $70M
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2010· 1 entry
Reuters: Gianni Versace, a life lived as a 90s fashion icon
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2009· 1 entry
The Russian Versace fan club was founded
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1997· 1 entry
Died 1997-07-15.
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1990· 2 entries
(according to several eyewitness claims) and that they could have interacted on further occasions because both were involved in sex-for-hire circles in Miami and San Francisco
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Designed the costumes for the San Francisco Opera's production of Capriccio
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1989· 1 entry
The firm expanded into haute couture with the launch of Atelier Versace
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1984· 1 entry
And '85, he contributed a specially appointed Gianni Versace Edition to the Mark VII line of American luxury automaker Lincoln
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1982· 2 entries
Versace met his partner Antonio D'Amico, a model, in 1982.
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Versace expanded the business into jewellery and housewares, designing luxury furnishings, china and textiles for the home
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1978· 1 entry
Versace quickly became a sensation on the international fashion scene
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1973· 1 entry
Became the designer of "Byblos", a successful Genny's youthful line and in 1977, he designed Complice, another, more experimental, line for Genny
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-12-02.
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