Gianni Versace (1946)

A dressmaker’s son, Gianni Versace was exposed to fashion from a young age. After working for several Italian ateliers, in 1978 he opened his own Milan studio in partnership with his siblings Santo and Donatella. Over the next two decades, he built a fashion empire that grew to include 130 boutiques worldwide and had annual sales above $800 million. But his career was cut short in 1997, when a fugitive serial killer murdered him on the steps of his Florida mansion. Was the murderer ever caught? Discuss

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