Versace

Baroque 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 premiere. The one shown here, from Spring/Summer 1992, fastens with a gold Medusa button. They are the most wearable way into Gianni's love of classical ornament, and the print that still says Versace from across a room.