Gianni Versace, the memory of his brother Santo: “Today I would tell him not to go to Miami”

On December 2, 1946, he was born Gianni Versace, the Calabrian stylist who changed the history of fashion thanks to dazzling insights and a new idea of ​​femininity. On July 15, 1997, his untimely death shocked the world, but his genius ensured his immortality far beyond the bounds of fashion. Gianni Versace would have turned 76 today: the older brother Holy Versacewho supported him in his climb to the Olympus of fashion, told a fanpage.it best memories he has of the brilliant designer.”He always traveled with his mind, he was extraordinary in every way.🇧🇷

Santo Versace recalls his childhood with Gianni

Holy Versaceentrepreneur and founding president of Altagamma, recounted his relationship with his brother Gianni in a book, Brothers, published by Rizzoli. A way to overcome the pain of a loss, he explains, and celebrate the adventure of a family that changed fashion in Reggio Calabria. Saint Versace has always been the older brother: protective, organized, solid. A concrete man, dedicated to numbers, with a clear entrepreneurial vision: it was he who drafted his brother’s first contract, long before founding his brand. The division of roles was clear: Gianni the creative part, Santo the administration. 🇧🇷Gianni has always been an eternal child – recalls Fanpage.it – He was mature and endowed with a lot of creativity, but the episode that struck me the most was when he disappeared with a friend. They must have been five or six years old. We found them on the steps of the Cathedral of Reggio Calabria eating a sandwich and he already proved that he was an artist: he brought with him the scissors from our mother’s tailor shop and cut his friend’s hair”.

Gianni and Saint Versace

Santo Versace: “At Gianni’s there was the permanent revolution”

Growing up in his mother’s tailor shop, Gianni Versace had fashion in his blood. It was his intuitions that made him take the leap in quality, imagining a future yet to be built. Gianni and Santo Versace together took Italian fashion to every corner of the world (even on the set of vice miami!) beautiful all the time. 🇧🇷Gianni has always been able to change – the brother points – every show was an event because you never knew what to expect. It was the permanent revolution“. The brother especially remembers the great generosity of the designer and tells a special episode about Maurice Béjart, dancer and choreographer friend of Gianni Versace. 🇧🇷Bejart loved Gianni so much that he used no other in his ballets. There was an extraordinary harmony between the two. He once told Gianni that he had seen two houses in Lausanne, one of which was extraordinary, but only had the budget for the other. Gianni asked how much the difference was and said: Santo, are we going to take care of it?🇧🇷

The Versace brothers as children

Today Santo Versace has left his role in the fashion house and is dedicated to cinema (he is president of Minerva Pictures) and to charity: together with his wife Francesca, he has created a Foundation which bears her name, engaged in the protection of the most fragile categories, from incarcerated mothers to the elderly. Although 25 years have passed since his brother’s death, the memory of grief has never left him. And today, he confesses, he would say to Gianni: “What an idiot you are, why did you go to Miami?🇧🇷

Santo and Gianni Versace

Donatella Versace’s message on social networks

Even the younger sister Donatella Versace, today at the creative head of the Medusa brand, shared a fond memory of his brother Gianni on social media: a black and white photograph that portrays them as a child and another as an adult, when they worked together. “IWords fail to express Gianni’s creative genius – He wrote – I love you and miss you so much. Happy birthday🇧🇷