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Gianni Versace

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Also known as Giovanni Versace, Giovanni Maria Versace

Italian fashion designer (1946–1997)

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Gianni Versace was an Italian fashion designer who founded the luxury Versace brand and became known for bold, colorful designs that revolutionized high fashion from the 1970s onward. He remains influential in the fashion industry, though his career was cut short when he was murdered in 1997 at age 50.

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www.versace.com
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date of birth
1946-12-02
date of death
1997-07-15
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Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace ( Italian: [dʒoˈvanni maˈriːa ˈdʒanni verˈsaːtʃe]; 2 December 1946 – 15 July 1997) 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, Joan Collins and many other celebrities, he was one of the first designers to link fashion to the music world. He and his partner Antonio D'Amico were regulars on the international party scene. The place where he was born and raised, Reggio di Calabria, greatly influenced his career.

On 15 July 1997, he was murdered outside his Miami Beach mansion, Casa Casuarina, by spree killer Andrew Cunanan.

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