Born in the Italian town of Reggio di Calabria in 1955, the daughter of a businessman and a dressmaker to the aristocracy, Donatella was the youngest of four children. Although Gianni was a decade her senior, the two were close, and by the age of 11 Donatella was accompanying her brother to discos and nightclubs.
After attending Florence University in the Seventies, Donatella joined Gianni's fledgling fashion company. She started out handling his PR, but her involvement went much deeper, and many credit her with being his muse, as her input was constant.
It was Donatella who came up with the idea of using well-known models for the catwalk shows, knowing it would generate more press coverage for the Versace label, and in the Nineties she was given carte blanche to design a new line, Versus. With her unerring feel for the Zeitgeist,
Donatella brought a new sensibility to the house of Versace. These days, the label is more in tune with the modern career woman, as the former muse has taken her inspiration from the lives of friends such as Madonna, Trudie Styler, Naomi Campbell and Courtney Love
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