Founded in 1978 in Milan, Versace is one of the leading international fashion design houses and a symbol of Italian luxury worldwide. The brand designs, manufactures, distributes and retails fashion and lifestyle products, including haute couture, ready-to-wear, accessories, jewellery, watches, eyewear, fragrances, home furnishings, all bearing the distinctive Medusa logo.

Donatella Versace has been the artistic director of Versace since 1997 and steers the brand into the 21st century. Today, Versace represents its heritage through its stylish, bold, daring designs while reaching out to a new global audience that upholds Versace's position in contemporary culture. 

Versus Versace started in 1989 as Versace line. It was created by the founder Gianni Versace as a gift to his sister Donatella to express her own individuality and model it on the rock-chic style, with the line being concretized mainly in the creation of jewelry and watches.