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...think it was the best Versace ever," said CNN's Elsa Klensch after the house's show of spring fashions last fall in Milan, "but for her it was a triumph." The "her" is Donatella Versace, a designer in her own right, who took over the company's creative reins in the wake of her brother Gianni's murder last July in Miami. In the opinion of most observers, the Milan show--as well as a show for Versace's Versus line the same week--proved the house is in capable hands, its visionary wedding of cheap sex appeal, expensive...
...show in Milan was high. Demi Moore, Anjelica Huston, Peter Gabriel, Boy George and Cher all showed up. Linda Evangelista and NAOMI CAMPBELL made rare runway appearances. Even other designers, including Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan and Miuccia Prada, came to offer support and perhaps to see what DONATELLA VERSACE, who has taken over design duties at the label since her brother's death, could do with a needle and thread. No one seemed disappointed--though it's hard to imagine anyone's being critical in such an environment. At the end of the show, Donatella emerged alone...
...world's most celebrated clotheshorses, including PRINCESS DIANA and CAROLYN BESSETTE KENNEDY, gathered in the Duomo in Milan, where ELTON JOHN and STING (who wore Versace to his wedding to TRUDIE STYLER) performed an a cappella rendition of Psalm 23, The Lord Is My Shepherd. The designer's sister DONATELLA and brother SANTO wept profusely, as did NAOMI CAMPBELL. John too was particularly overcome. Before the service he broke down in tears in front of the urn containing Versace's ashes. Earlier in the week, a British newspaper editor had borne the brunt of the singer's wrath when...
...Donatella who persuaded Versace to visit her in 1991 in her favorite new sunbathing spot, Miami Beach. On his way to Cuba with his longtime companion Antonio D'Amico, he obliged his sister with a stop at the Hotel Fontainebleau, where she was vacationing with her husband Paul Beck, a former Versace model, and the couple's two children, Allegra and Daniel. The designer hired a driver to show him around the area, and he wound up in the then not yet trendy section of South Beach. "I sat in a bar and started to look around at the people...
...with Gianni out of the picture, it falls to elder brother Santo, 53, and sister Donatella, 42, to keep the company's fashions and earnings hot. The family members are thoroughly versed in the business. Santo, an accountant by training, is the savvy CEO of the company, and the pineapple-blond Donatella, as vice president and a designer in her own right, has played an increasingly large role in matters of fashion. "Gianni was the genius, but they can still go ahead," says designer Donatella Girombelli, who gave Versace his first job in Milan...