Sometimes a king issues orders before he has a throne.
This was the case for Gianni Versace who was 19 — and had not yet founded the revered Versace fashion house — when he directed his sister, Donatella Versace, to dye her hair blonde. She was 11. The inspiration? Patty Pravo, an Italian singer.
“Back then Gianni was so obsessed with Pravo, an iron-straight-haired ‘blond,’ that he persuaded eleven-year-old Donatella to dye her own hair just like his heroine,” writes Ingrid Sischy in the first chapter of Versace by Donatella Versace with Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi. The book is an “intimate visual...
This was the case for Gianni Versace who was 19 — and had not yet founded the revered Versace fashion house — when he directed his sister, Donatella Versace, to dye her hair blonde. She was 11. The inspiration? Patty Pravo, an Italian singer.
“Back then Gianni was so obsessed with Pravo, an iron-straight-haired ‘blond,’ that he persuaded eleven-year-old Donatella to dye her own hair just like his heroine,” writes Ingrid Sischy in the first chapter of Versace by Donatella Versace with Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi. The book is an “intimate visual...
- 11/1/2016
- by samgillettetimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
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