Gianni Versace was born in Reggio Calabria on December 2,
1946.
He studied architecture in Calabria from 1964-1967.
When he was 25 he moved to Milan and worked as a freelance
designer for Genny, Complice and Callaghan.
In 1978, Gianni Versace formed his own company, launching his
first menswear collection in 1979.
About the same thime, he started a collaboration with Richard
Avedon, an American photographer who would shoot all the Versace
catalogs and with whom Gianni Versace will co-author several books
until his death in 1997.
His tragic death in 1997 caught the world by surprise too. The
whole world mourned the death of a great talent, the Last Emperor
of Fashion.