On Donatella Versace's birthday, we look back at an interview where the designer touched on both LGBTQ+ rights and systemic racism
, where we’re speaking to some of the industry’s most crucial voices about this current – and highly unique – moment in fashion history.always looks forward, keying not only her clothes but her points of view to successive generations, and always evolving the identity of– the fashion house, and Donatella herself.
Donatella Versace: I find it to be more powerful for this to be applied to whatever each one of us needs in that specific moment. We are not all the same and we are not going through the same moments in life. I think that I have always wanted to create clothes that makes you feel at ease in your own skin and confident. What could be more powerful than that?
DV: We have been living in a society in which you were in a constant fight. Especially for certain groups of people: women, people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community.
AF: Craft and community are essential to fashion – I always feel that your work is so much about a community, a group, an ideology. What does that represent now, at a time when people cannot be together in ways we are used to?
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