num_pages: 158
description: Gianni Versace created a fashion house that defined late twentieth-century glamour invented the supermodel and sanctioned in the public consciousness a supremely self-assured feminine sexuality. His debut line in 1978 was instantly successful; in the Eighties his extravagant designs and his vision of powerful women defined the era and culminated in the Nineties with the supermodel phenomenon - his designs worn by those glamazons who featured on every Vogue cover. The book reveals how the more brazen elements of his design - the jewelled embroidery the bondage straps the safety-pin gowns - were predicated on supremely skilled tailoring deft use of materials and innovative techniques. Alongside are Vogue 's eye-witness accounts of the Versace lifestyle - the palazzos and parties the art the celebrity friends. Vogue on Gianni Versace is a celebration of a designer and a house that in only 19 years came to dominate the catwalk and the red carpet.
language: English
title: Vogue on Gianni Versace
publisher: Quadrille Publishing