Versace is fresh off a star-studded SS22 fashion week runway, including major names like Dua Lipa, Naomi Campbell and Gigi Hadid. The runway included typical marks of the Italian fashion house — glitz, bold colors, the classic Baroquian Versace print and a hefty number of glamorous safety pins.
Versace has made a lot of noise lately and it’s starting to show in their celebrity clientele portfolio. Between outfitting several standout celebs (Lil Nas X, Maluma, Lupita Nyong’o) for the 2021 MET Gala and the Fendi X Versace runway collab (Fendace), they have had quite the productive season. Versace has taken this momentum and the brand has been churning out custom outfits for big names like it’s 2004. Even Britney Spears, who’s recently been freed from her 13-year conservatorship, claims that “Donatella Versace is making [her] dress as we speak,” on an Instagram post this past week. Donatella has been participating in No Rest November — She’s collecting her coins and spreading the Good Word of Versace all over.
After establishing herself as a force to be reckoned with within the pop music space with her smash hit and critically acclaimed album Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa has become Donatella’s Versace it-girl. A month after her runway debut, she attended the Frieze Art Fair with Donatella and her stylist, Lorenzo Posocco, wearing a chartreuse crop top, lavender slit skirt set from Versace SS22.
Ariana Grande is one of the biggest names in the world when it comes to music. The positions singer has been known as a longtime fan of the movie 13 Going On 30. For her thank u, next music video she channels several female film protagonists, including 13 Going On 30’s Jenna Rink. As a new coach on this season of The Voice, Grande came dressed to the 13s by wearing a replica of Jenna Rink’s famous party dress from the movie. The pop singer thanked Donatella in a post on Instagram for the custom remake of the SS03 Versace dress.
TikTok princess Addison Rae attended the amfAR Gala in Los Angeles to benefit the foundation’s AIDS/HIV research program. The event featured an array of celebrity attendees, and chairperson Addison Rae sported a Versace dress with a pleated black crepe skirt with a thigh-high slit attached to an asymmetrical glittering champagne cutout halter bodice.
On her press tour for her upcoming blockbuster, pop star turned actress Lady Gaga took a break from her regularly scheduled Gucci wardrobe to represent the House of Versace. Gaga will be playing Patrizia Reggiani in the film House Of Gucci, a movie about a woman marrying into the Gucci family and the dramatic chaos that ensues. At the premiere in Milan, Italy, Gaga wore a scarlet red silk taffeta corset dress with a slit up the leg.
For her Marvel debut, Angelina Jolie attended the Rome Film Festival for the premiere of her most recent movie, Eternals, wearing none other than a custom Versace gown. The metallic silver column dress fell to the floor draped in heritage metal mesh and cinched at the waist with ruching on the upper thigh.