On December 2, we will celebrate the 75 years of an icon, Calabrian by birth, internationally known and loved by everyone: Gianni Versace.
The premature death of this extraordinary artist brings with it multiple questions, doubts and fears, so we still do not know the answer or solution. But what has been taught me since I was a child, is that often the memory can be the sense of everything and can be stronger than a tangible presence.
I did not know Gianni and maybe I was too small to remember that July 15, 1997, when he lost his life on the stairs of his villa in Miami, but to date I don't think someone exists who does not know this myth of fashion.
There are many names that peek daily in the world of design and high fashion, but if we talk about Versace, the uniqueness, the contrast and the prints, "ciaboard", in the true sense of the word, our attention and the our curiosity. Gianni was a beloved man, in a society and in a world that did not give space to his most intimate "I", but who showed a part of himself through the garments, fabrics and characters of the world of fashion that have always loved him , venerated.
"Made in Italy" was the signature of him, an advocate and bulwark of the need to make the Italian style unique in its kind; He was born "tailor", he called "the true artist", because he is that of him the formation of him, in that house of Reggio Calabria.
From that black, difficult land, he takes sensuality and beauty, bringing the earth, Magna Grecia and pop / rock culture that takes up from him in Milan, the capital of fashion, in the creations.
Those who cannot see art, architecture defined in the works of this man, certainly have a view problem that should not be underestimated or simply a lack of vitamin G: the vitamin of taste. That same taste that our artist inherited from his mother Franca and that with the birth of the maison, together with his brother Holy, has always tried not to leave behind.
But how to blame him? Gianni's leaders have gone from the hands of artists of national, international caliber and I would not be surprised if there was some piece hidden also in Area 51, making it universal.
The myth Gianni Versace, between Baroque, Greek and Etruscan culture ethrus ends with that memory of which I have already told you remains vivid in our minds, but with a bitterness that obscures the heart.
That morning of July, Cunanan, pluriomicida, shoots two shots in the head of Gianni, and then run away with a stolen van. The same, he will be found dead, committed suicide with the same gun used for various murders. However, no ascertained bonds between the two.
You know, with the advent of CSI Miami, we are all investigators and we are immediately ready to say "I think there was more behind", but as it went, let me say that I think what it is important to detect, it is the Loss of such a great icon, that we will hardly be able to replace.
And then, those shots in the head, are shots that the whole world has undergone, cried and for which we got angry, but that make us remember how much a man, full of passion, stubbornness, insecurities and desire to change, can remain in the heart of an entire humanity.
