Review by Tim Blanks
Donatella Versace is a fashion original rock chick. But she also exudes the sense that rock was not just her way to rebel, but also her way to relax away from the heady legacy of her brother Gianni. So Versus was her thing, It was that tsunami of positivity that propelled the Versus revival show.
She's already cherry-picked a couple of fashion's hottest names—Christopher Kane, J.W.Anderson— as coconspirators, but the newly anointed appointee, Anthony Vaccarello, may be the smartest choice yet. He certainly acquitted himself admirably with a collection that managed to be Versus in style and Versace in attitude. Vaccarello was 5 years old, with his grandparents in Sicily, when he first saw a Versace show on TV. It had the same effect on him as a football game probably had on other boys his age. "So working with Donatella was very organic," he said. Which probably accounted for a highly focused series of body-conscious black pieces accented with gold buttons, clasps, belt buckles, and breastplates. Tailor-made for Lady Versace herself.
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