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I grew up in Brazil in a very small town his story when I read that he didn't pursue fashion that it came to him
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because his mom was a dress maker hit home because I grew up with my grandmother making clothes telling me
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star is how she learned how to sew cuz she didn't have money to buy clothes and I think that was the number one thing
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that I understand why I love fashion and so when you saw his work and looked at his designs what what was it that that
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made you want to sort of be like him the number one thing was how when I looked at his
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women they looked like superheroes they were so powerful and I saw that he was taking inspiration from the streets uh
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he was the one bringing street style into high fashion I always say that to me clothing are like the armors that we
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wear every day to conquer our world and I think when you dress the way that makes you feel so powerful you can just
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like convince everybody of what you want and his clothes have that when I looked
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at it I just felt like wow you I'll be like Invincible wearing a dress like this are there design elements in your
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clothes that you trace back to Versace yes um I love incorporating the hardware for example these buckles are kind of
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like my signature now I try to use them in so many different ways and like Versace he love to experiment with
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unusual materials and I love doing that too incorporating a little bit of like bondage to it cuz it looks a little like
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SNM and I like that that brings like the few cells yes what's interesting is that
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I mean you were barely a teenager when he died but you still see some relevance in his work today yes I think it's
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because Versace really changed the face of fashion uh when he started he recognized
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how the fashion needed a little bit of um uplift it was so close-minded and he understood also the power of mixing pop
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culture with high fashion and now we see Versace and songs like hip-hop songs everywhere whenever you see the symbol
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the Medusa you already know automatically that's Versace even people that don't know so much about fashion
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they recognize the symbols and it stayed so relevant