Preamble
For you convenience I have listed below other posts that features Gianni Versace.
Versace – Retrospective 1982-1997
Gianni Versace: The Dream
Gianni Versace - Menswear
Introduction [1]
In the twentieth century, fasion design focused on women. Many of the greatest designers of the century never produced menswear. Men and menswear are, he also invented, beginning his menswear collection only a year after the womensware, her counterpart, one as appropriate as Ken is to Barbie. The proud strumpet, flaunting body and exercising a politically incorrect sensuous femininity, is complemented by the 'man without a tie,' the gym built poseur and senualist, the lusty male.
As Versace's ideal for women is blatant sexuality, inviting spectatorship both of the body revealed in draped shirts that reveal the torso and of fetish types of virile clothing, such as leather, fringe, and studs. Significantly, Versace shirts are shaped and are never the boxy, full cuts that have so long obscured the male body. A Versace shirt is more like a blouse than the traditional man's shirt in materials, cut, and color. Attention is given to the upper torso by draping so that the pectorals and even the nipples come to constitute part of what the shirt reveals. Versace's menswear is genuinely revolutionary, insisting on men as sex objects. He became the standard-bearer of gay men's fashion, because he eschewed decorum and design for desire.
Versace's manifesto, 'Men Without Ties,' often read only as a scrapbook of images of beautiful men, goes further to provide a warrant for the senuous man. To be without a necktie in the mtaphor to being self-reliant after the industrial models for men's behaviors and for menswear. Versace attempted to reverse the principle of 'The Great Male Renunciation' by which nineteenth-century men forsook their long-prized embroideries, brilliant colors, dashes of lace, and luxury materials for the gray and dark blue and black frocked coates and suits that would be apt for the sooty cities and dour tasks of modern industrialization and management, leaving all that was beautiful and decorative to the sphere of women. Versace wanted men to be just as sexy as women; he demanded that they be physically open. In guaranteeing a positive aesthetic of masculinity, Versace offered a perfect balance to the women he envisioned.
Gianni Versace's Timelines (1946-1997)
1946 Born December 2nd in Reggio Calibria, Italy.
1971 Starts working as a fashion designer in Milan, after an apprenticeship in his mother's dressmaking business.
1975 Shows his first leather collection for fashion house Complice.
1978 Presents his first women's ready-to-wear collection at Palazzo della Permanente, Milan.
1982 Designs his first theatre costumes, in collaboration with the Teatro alla Scala, for the production of Richard Strauss' ballet, Josephlegende. Receives his first prestigious 'Occhio d'Oro' (Golden Eye) award for his famous autumn/winter collection of metal mesh dresses.
1985 Versace speaks at a conference at the Arte e Moda exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
1986 The Italian President Francesco Cossiga makes Versace a 'Commandatore' of the Italian Republic. The National Field Museum, Chicago, presents a major retrospective of Versace's work. The 'Gianni Versace: Obiettivo Moda' exhibition in Paris illustrates the collaboration between Versace and internationally renowned photographers such as Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and Bruce Weber.
1987 Designs theatre costumes for the production of Salome by Richard Strauss, and Maurice Béjart's, Leda et la Cygne and for Souvenir de Leningrad. He receives the Maschera D'Argento (Golden Mask) for his contribution to the theatre.
1988 Elected the world's most creative and innovative designer for men by the 'Cutty Sark' jury.
1989 Opens the 'Atelier Versace', a studio for the creation of Versace haute couture designs. Introduces the new line 'Versus' in Milan aimed at a younger audience. Creates theatre costumes for Béjart's production of Elegie pour Ella at the Cirque Royale, Brussels.
1990 Designs costumes for the San Francisco Opera production of Richard Strauss' Capriccio.
1991 Exhibition 'Versace Teatro' at the Royal College of Art, London. Receives the 'Occhio d'Oro' award for the fourth time, as the most innovative designer of the year.
1992 The 'Versace: Signatures' retrospective opens at the Fashion Instiute of Technology (F.I.T.) New York. Stage costumes designed for the world tour of performer Elton John.
1993 Awarded the coveted American Fashion Oscar by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Launches 'Home Signature' a new line of accessories for the home.
1994 The 'Versace: Signatures' retrospective opens at the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin.
1995 Designs costumes for the world premier production by the American Ballet Theatre of 'How Near Heaven,' Washington, D.C.
1997 Versace is shot and killed outside his South Beach home in Miami, Florida on July 15th.
Gianni Versace - Mensware [1]
Description: Man's shirt. Spring-Summer Collection (1991).
Materials: Silk twill printed with polychrome. Warhol-inspired imagery.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Description: Man's ensemble. Spring-Summer Collection (1992).
Materials: Black-and white printed silk and black-and-white printed denim.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Description: Man's jeans and shirt ensemble, Spring-Summer Collection (1992).
Materials: Cotton and leather.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Description: Man's leather jacket, Spring-Summer Collection (1993).
Materials: Black leather jacket with silver-tone metal beads.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Description: Man's leather jacket, Spring-Summer Collection (1993).
Materials: Black leather jacket.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Description: Black leather jacket, Spring-Summer Collection (1993)
Materials: Black leather with metal applied decoration, and black denim.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Description: Man's studded ensemble, Spring-Summer Collection (1993).
Materials: Black leather with gold and silver tone metal studs.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Description: Man's Nehru-style suit, Spring-Summer Collection (1997).
Materials: Gray pinstripe synthetic twill.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Description: Man's jeans, Fall-Winter Collection (1990-1991).
Materials: Printed cotton-and-nylon blend twill.
Courtesy: Gift of Brooks Adam and Lisa Liebmann (1996).
Reference:
[1] R. Martin, Gianni Versace, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1997).
For you convenience I have listed below other posts that features Gianni Versace.
Versace – Retrospective 1982-1997
Gianni Versace: The Dream
Gianni Versace - Menswear
Introduction [1]
In the twentieth century, fasion design focused on women. Many of the greatest designers of the century never produced menswear. Men and menswear are, he also invented, beginning his menswear collection only a year after the womensware, her counterpart, one as appropriate as Ken is to Barbie. The proud strumpet, flaunting body and exercising a politically incorrect sensuous femininity, is complemented by the 'man without a tie,' the gym built poseur and senualist, the lusty male.
As Versace's ideal for women is blatant sexuality, inviting spectatorship both of the body revealed in draped shirts that reveal the torso and of fetish types of virile clothing, such as leather, fringe, and studs. Significantly, Versace shirts are shaped and are never the boxy, full cuts that have so long obscured the male body. A Versace shirt is more like a blouse than the traditional man's shirt in materials, cut, and color. Attention is given to the upper torso by draping so that the pectorals and even the nipples come to constitute part of what the shirt reveals. Versace's menswear is genuinely revolutionary, insisting on men as sex objects. He became the standard-bearer of gay men's fashion, because he eschewed decorum and design for desire.
Versace's manifesto, 'Men Without Ties,' often read only as a scrapbook of images of beautiful men, goes further to provide a warrant for the senuous man. To be without a necktie in the mtaphor to being self-reliant after the industrial models for men's behaviors and for menswear. Versace attempted to reverse the principle of 'The Great Male Renunciation' by which nineteenth-century men forsook their long-prized embroideries, brilliant colors, dashes of lace, and luxury materials for the gray and dark blue and black frocked coates and suits that would be apt for the sooty cities and dour tasks of modern industrialization and management, leaving all that was beautiful and decorative to the sphere of women. Versace wanted men to be just as sexy as women; he demanded that they be physically open. In guaranteeing a positive aesthetic of masculinity, Versace offered a perfect balance to the women he envisioned.
Gianni Versace's Timelines (1946-1997)
1946 Born December 2nd in Reggio Calibria, Italy.
1971 Starts working as a fashion designer in Milan, after an apprenticeship in his mother's dressmaking business.
1975 Shows his first leather collection for fashion house Complice.
1978 Presents his first women's ready-to-wear collection at Palazzo della Permanente, Milan.
1982 Designs his first theatre costumes, in collaboration with the Teatro alla Scala, for the production of Richard Strauss' ballet, Josephlegende. Receives his first prestigious 'Occhio d'Oro' (Golden Eye) award for his famous autumn/winter collection of metal mesh dresses.
1985 Versace speaks at a conference at the Arte e Moda exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
1986 The Italian President Francesco Cossiga makes Versace a 'Commandatore' of the Italian Republic. The National Field Museum, Chicago, presents a major retrospective of Versace's work. The 'Gianni Versace: Obiettivo Moda' exhibition in Paris illustrates the collaboration between Versace and internationally renowned photographers such as Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and Bruce Weber.
1987 Designs theatre costumes for the production of Salome by Richard Strauss, and Maurice Béjart's, Leda et la Cygne and for Souvenir de Leningrad. He receives the Maschera D'Argento (Golden Mask) for his contribution to the theatre.
1988 Elected the world's most creative and innovative designer for men by the 'Cutty Sark' jury.
1989 Opens the 'Atelier Versace', a studio for the creation of Versace haute couture designs. Introduces the new line 'Versus' in Milan aimed at a younger audience. Creates theatre costumes for Béjart's production of Elegie pour Ella at the Cirque Royale, Brussels.
1990 Designs costumes for the San Francisco Opera production of Richard Strauss' Capriccio.
1991 Exhibition 'Versace Teatro' at the Royal College of Art, London. Receives the 'Occhio d'Oro' award for the fourth time, as the most innovative designer of the year.
1992 The 'Versace: Signatures' retrospective opens at the Fashion Instiute of Technology (F.I.T.) New York. Stage costumes designed for the world tour of performer Elton John.
1993 Awarded the coveted American Fashion Oscar by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Launches 'Home Signature' a new line of accessories for the home.
1994 The 'Versace: Signatures' retrospective opens at the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin.
1995 Designs costumes for the world premier production by the American Ballet Theatre of 'How Near Heaven,' Washington, D.C.
1997 Versace is shot and killed outside his South Beach home in Miami, Florida on July 15th.
Gianni Versace - Mensware [1]
Materials: Silk twill printed with polychrome. Warhol-inspired imagery.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Materials: Black-and white printed silk and black-and-white printed denim.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Materials: Cotton and leather.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Materials: Black leather jacket with silver-tone metal beads.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Materials: Black leather jacket.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Materials: Black leather with metal applied decoration, and black denim.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Materials: Black leather with gold and silver tone metal studs.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Materials: Gray pinstripe synthetic twill.
Courtesy: Ginnai Versace Archives.
Materials: Printed cotton-and-nylon blend twill.
Courtesy: Gift of Brooks Adam and Lisa Liebmann (1996).
Reference:
[1] R. Martin, Gianni Versace, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1997).
