The House of Versace | The Artist and the Muse | 23

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Three siblings — Gianni, Donatella, and Santo Versace — built one of the greatest fashion labels ever. But when Gianni is murdered on the front steps of his South Beach mansion, the label loses its visionary. Can the business survive? Over the next four episodes, we’re going to explore the rise, and fall, and rise again of the House of Versace. In this episode, Gianni breaks free from his provincial childhood and moves to Milan to make his mark on the fashion world. But something’s missing — actually, someone — his little sister, best friend, and muse: Donatella.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:07.6	A quick heads up, there won't be any swearing in this episode, but there will be stilettos.
0:12.6	Okay, Ereia.
0:19.6	Okay, Ereisha, it's July 15th, 1997, and you're in Rome.
0:24.0	Hmm, I'd prefer to visit in the fall, but okay.
0:27.0	Okay, well, you don't have a choice.
0:29.0	You're Donna Tulliver sati, the vice president of one of the biggest fashion labels in the world.
0:35.6	And right now you're scrambling to put the finishing touches on a fashion show that's going
0:39.5	to air on Italian television in 24 hours. The heels on your stilettos are sinking into the hot cement.
0:46.1	There's a heat wave in Rome. But you don't care. You've worn a five inch heel every day
0:51.2	since you were 15. No reason to change now. I must have some
0:54.8	serious lower back pain. Well when you're 5-2 in a fashion icon you got to do what
0:59.6	you got to do. Fair. You're marching up and down Rome's iconic Spanish steps.
1:05.0	Normally, the place would be packed with tourists,
1:08.0	getting gelato and taking photos,
1:10.0	but today it's packed with models trying not to fall down.
1:13.7	It's total mayhem.
1:15.7	Make-up artists, models and stylists running around like sugar-crazed children.
1:20.6	But you keep your cool.
1:22.1	This isn't your first rodeo, And you know what you're doing. You're like,
1:26.2	this hem is too long. Pin it up. This needs a belt. What kind of eye shadow is this? We're not at a death metal concert.
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