His name is tied to a specific time. A time when the original supermodels walked up and down the runways of Italian creativity. Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Carla Bruni, Helena Christensen have all been muses of his.

Beautiful and untouchable, they seemed the sole protagonists of each show but, by bringing the world’s attention to them and feeding their haughty, temperamental myth, he in fact fed his own fame. In turn, Gianni Versace became an idol of Italian fashion.