Items11The creator’s order
  1. 1VersaceVersaceOroton metal mesh, 1982 This is the fabric that made Versace look like no one else. Gianni developed Oroton, a super-light chain mail, in 1982, and its tiny metal links drape over the body with the slither of silk. Usually in gold or silver, it turned evening dresses into liquid light under a…0
  2. 2Josephs LegendeJosephs LegendeVersace's costumes for La Scala, Milan, 1982 Gianni's stage career began with costumes for Richard Strauss's ballet at Milan's La Scala in 1982, the same year as Oroton, and the theater never let him go. He became a regular collaborator of La Scala's ballet and went on to dress Maurice Béjart's…0
  3. 3VersaceVersacePop Art collection, Spring/Summer 1991 The Warhol Marilyn dress lives here. Working with the Andy Warhol Foundation, Gianni printed the faces of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, taken from Warhol's screen prints, onto his clothes, and set them beside baroque swirls, leopard print and harlequin…0
  4. 4VersaceVersaceSupermodel finale, Autumn/Winter 1991 The clothes were short, bright cocktail dresses in red, yellow and black, but the moment is why they are remembered. Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington closed the Milan show lip-syncing to George Michael's "Freedom! '90,"…0
  5. 5VersaceVersaceBaroque print silk shirts, early 1990s A silk shirt crowded with gold scrolls, Medusa heads and classical ornament is the Versace piece most people picture first. The baroque swirls shouted from his 1991 runways, and the shirts carried them off the catwalk, as much at home in a nightclub as at a…0
  6. 6VersaceVersace"Miss S&M" bondage collection, Autumn/Winter 1992 The most daring season Gianni ever sent out. Officially Miss S&M and now known simply as the bondage collection, it brought black leather, studs, dog collars and harness straps into luxury eveningwear and cut them to show plenty of leg. Decades…0
  7. 7Black Versace dress of Elizabeth HurleyBlack Versace dress of Elizabeth HurleyBlack safety pin dress, Spring/Summer 1994, worn by Elizabeth Hurley Perhaps the best-known Versace creation of all. The black dress from the punk-themed Spring/Summer 1994 collection, first shown on the Milan runway, split down the sides and was held together by oversized gold safety pins. When…0
  8. 8VersaceVersaceMadonna's Versace campaigns, 1995 Gianni chose the biggest pop star on earth to wear his clothes in print. Madonna fronted the Spring 1995 campaign, photographed by Steven Meisel, and it went so well that she shot a second for Autumn/Winter with Mario Testino, whose pictures from that July shoot…0
  9. 9VersaceVersaceAtelier Versace vinyl and PVC couture, Autumn/Winter 1995 Couture usually means silk and hand embroidery; Gianni sent out plastic. The Atelier Versace season showed single-color dresses sliced with Perspex, including a form-hugging vinyl dress worn by Karen Mulder under a clear PVC layer shaped…0
  10. 10Diana, Princess of WalesDiana, Princess of WalesBorn Jul 1, 1961Versace worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996 and 1997 After her divorce, Diana wore more international designers, and Gianni, a friend, dressed her for some of her most visible moments. In 1996 she chose a royal-blue Versace gown for a fundraiser in Sydney and a purple Versace dress for a gala…0