Fashion doyenne DONATELLA VERSACE is being strongly criticized fore her refusal to use ‘real’ women as models in a Versace for H&M photo shoot. Seeing as how Donatella looks so far removed from ‘real’ herself, celebrity news really isn’t surprised.
The 56-year-old Italian fashion designer, who took over the Versace empire after her brother and Versace founder, Gianni Versace was murdered in 1997, is known for her love of tanning, plastic surgery, and emaciated models…
For this very reason, she’s come under a lot of fire for saying ‘real’ women don’t “fit the Versace brand.”
This attitude has earned her the ire of industry insiders who say Donatella is completely missing the point of aligning with chainstore brand, H&M, particularly since she’d already expressed her intention to “attract a much more diverse customer than usual with the cheaper line.”
“This is so typical of 99.9 per cent of designers: they only want their clothes worn by the very young and the very thin,”
a correspondent for The Daily Mail said.
Fashionista.com stated on its website that the point of H&M is that it’s supposed to be accessible in a way that designer brands like Versace are not.
“That’s why H&M collaborates with designers–to give ‘real girls’ the chance to wear Versace and Lanvin.”
Donatella has given no comment on this debacle except to say:
“When I’m going to see young people in the street wearing these iconic (Versace for H&M) pieces it’s going to be fun.”
But not if you’re going to end up looking like Donatella…
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