Donatella Versace delivered a beautiful tribute to her late brother Gianni Versace at the Milan Fashion Week. The Italian designer used not only her brother’s favorite models but took as inspiration Gianni’s work for the Versace 2008 Spring collection.

The Versace Fashion Show caused a total awe

Donatella Versace authored the defining moment of Milan fashion week on Friday. A blockbuster show honoring her late brother Gianni which closed with a surprise supermodel reunion that brought the cheering crowd to its feet.

Security guards had to brush back the audience when it rushed the catwalk once a white curtain at the head of the room peeled back at the show’s close to revealing the guests of honor.

Out stepped Cindy Crawford, Carla Bruni, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen and Claudia Schiffer in a gold lame as the George Michael anthem ‘Freedom ’90’ pounded from the sound system.

Each of the women — all now in their 40s or 50s — had personally worked with Gianni during their years on the runway.

“Gianni this is for you,” a voice declared throughout the show. It featured the greatest hits of the murdered designer’s canon.

“We pay homage to not only (Gianni’s) artistic genius but to who he was as a man, and above all, as my brother,” Donatella wrote in her notes on the Spring/Summer 2018 collection.

Honoring Gianni

On July 15 the two-decade anniversary came and went for the murder of Versace. He was shot dead on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion.

The gunman, 27-year-old Andrew Cunanan, took his own life days later after an inexplicable crime spree. He left at least five people dead.

And while Donatella honored her late brother with a beautiful and inspiring fashion show, showrunner Ryan Murphy plans to honor him by portraying his story on ‘Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.‘

“He lived outrageously and daringly. He was a disruptor, and his life was opera, and he lived that way. There are so many positive aspects to him. I love his relationship with his family, which we show,” Ryan Murphy said.

“I really admired how he had pulled himself back from the brink and kept fighting,” Murphy says. Noting that many might not remember how hard it was at the time to be authentic and one’s self if he or she was gay.

“That’s one of the joys of the work – to really get it right. Because we cared. We wanted to do honor to him.”

“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” will premiere on FX in January 2018.

 

Source: NY Times