{"id":990919,"date":"2025-12-09T15:45:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=990919"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:45:59","slug":"blink-and-youll-miss-em-dario-vitales-greatest-versace-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=990919","title":{"rendered":"Blink and you\u2019ll miss \u2018em: Dario Vitale\u2019s greatest Versace hits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In pictures: Dario Vitale\u2019s Versace era<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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It\u2019s been no more than five days since <\/span>Dario Vitale<\/span><\/a>\u2019s <\/span>departure from Versace<\/span><\/a>, and the fashion world is still scratching its head. Over on High Fashion Twitter (yes, that\u2019s still just about a thing), Vitale\u2019s eight-month tenure was immediately memed, with rapid-thumbed homosexuals comparing the situation to an <\/span>ANTM walk-off<\/span><\/a>, or a camp <\/span>Desperate Housewives<\/span><\/em> plotline<\/span><\/a>. Elsewhere, others compared his time at the house to <\/span>Peter Do<\/span><\/a>\u2019s 20-month stint at <\/span>Helmut Lang<\/span><\/a>, Peter Hawkings\u2019 15-month career at <\/span>Tom Ford<\/span><\/a>, or <\/span>Ludovic de Saint Sernin<\/span><\/a>\u2019s single season at <\/span>Ann Demuelemeester<\/span><\/a>, which beat Vitale on brevity at just six months.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the <\/span>Prada<\/span><\/a> Group\u2019s recent acquisition of Versace, and Vitale\u2019s status as a former long-term employee at <\/span>Miu Miu<\/span><\/a>, many are speculating on what could\u2019ve soured behind the scenes. While we may never know (despite really, really wanting to), instead we\u2019re taking a teary-eyed look back at Vitale\u2019s very brief tenure, which proposed a bold new vision of what Versace could be.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lorde in Versace, LACMA Art + Film Gala, Los Angeles, November 2025<\/span><\/span>Photography Monica Schipper\/FilmMagic via Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Back in August, the incumbent designer shocked the world by choosing Julia Roberts as his first muse, in that Venice Film Festival outfit swapping fiasco. After that was the designer\u2019s first \u201cexpression\u201d for the house in mid-September, a campaign-that-wasn\u2019t-really-a-campaign featuring Binx Walton shot by Stef Mitchell, an illustration by Collier Schorr, and an archive Steven Meisel photograph. \u201cA new expression, defining the house through the people, places and emblems that embody its values,\u201d said the label, at the time. \u201cAn exploratory project, unearthing the essence of Versace, past, present and future.\u201d The debut show that brought that expression to life followed on September 27, our momentary entryway into Vitale\u2019s world that included adult rompers, bejewelled bras, nods to 80s Gianni Versace and a vibe that was altogether new but still had Versace coursing through its veins. With indie film stars like Talia Ryder and Ava Capri walking the runway, critics were heralding Vitale for <\/span>putting the sexy in Versace<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Off the runway, and the stars were responding to the new clothes with glee, too. A day after the runway show Addison Rae somehow got her hands on the bejewelled bra and knickers for <\/span>The Addison Tour<\/span><\/em> in New York, while former Dazed cover stars like <\/span>Lorde<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Ramla Ali<\/span><\/a> tapped Vitale for their own custom red carpet looks. Elsewhere, <\/span>campaign star Joseph Quinn told us<\/span><\/a> that Vitale was \u201cbrilliantly, provocatively and delicately\u201d bringing his voice to the house, director Luna Carmoon described the new direction as \u201chaunting and exciting\u201d, while Italian popstar Mahmood chose Versace for a recent night out in Milan. While Vitale may be gone, he certainly isn\u2019t forgotten, and we suspect that he\u2019ll soon bag another top job in fashion\u2019s never ending game of musical chairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scroll through the gallery above to see Vitale\u2019s best moments<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Source URL: https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/69255\/1\/dario-vitale-versace-exit-addison-rae-lorde-joseph-quinn-aimee-lou-wood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In pictures: Dario Vitale\u2019s Versace era Gallery \/ 20 images It\u2019s been no more than five days since Dario Vitale\u2019s departure from Versace, and the fashion world is still scratching its head. Over on High Fashion Twitter (yes, that\u2019s still just about a thing), Vitale\u2019s eight-month tenure was immediately memed, with rapid-thumbed homosexuals comparing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":990920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-990919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-dazeddigital-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/990920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}