Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.
Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.
I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
I don't like my physique at all.
I like perfume and flowers.
In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.
It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.
Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.
You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.
She is the first credited designer to use well-known celebrities to model her clothing.
She had a cameo role in the film Zoolander.
Her late brother Gianni Versace, launched a perfume dedicated to her called 'Blonde.'
She has a daughter, Allegra (born 1986) and a son, Daniel (born 1991) with American model Paul Beck.