Lisa Armstrong
Tributes are a strange business. A closure of sorts. Then again, there’s always the risk of reopening old wounds that may, more or less, have healed. Donatella Versace has been tussling with this dilemma for two decades.
It’s 20 years and two months since her brother, Gianni, was murdered outside his Miami mansion. Last week, in her usual Milan Fashion Week time slot, she finally tackled The Tribute and then some. If you like your fashion shows with glitz, glamour and emotion, this was the mother of them all. Supermodels? She had them today’s, and the originals. Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid, Claudia Schiffer, Carla Bruni, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford …
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