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Tim’s Take | Versace Autumn/Winter 2016

Tim Blanks talks to Donatella Versace to decode the creative thinking behind her latest collection. Watch now.

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  • Tim Blanks

MILAN, Italy — In a new video series, BoF editor-at-large Tim Blanks talks to fashion's top designers to decode the creative thinking behind their latest collections. Today, Blanks talks to Donatella Versace, artistic director and vice president of Versace, about her Autumn/Winter 2016 collection, making Versace her own, and shifting her focus from red carpet dressing to daywear.

To read Tim Blanks' review of Versace's Autumn/Winter 2016 collection, click here.

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