Viva Versace Part 5!!

Tribute to everything Versace, from videos, editorials, ad campaigns, quotes, and images from my personal archives spanning 15 years. I will try to catalogue Versace's images from my favorite collections during the last decade. 
 
Gianni Versace was a man who changed my life and introduced me to the world of fashion, art, supermodels, photography, and music. He will never be forgotten... enjoy!
 

 

Top 5 Best Versace Cologne for Men Reviews

Top 5 Best Versace Cologne for Men Reviews

Versace was born in Italy in December of 1946. He started as an apprentice at his mother’s business as a dressmaker and then started working for himself as a freelance designer. When he was 25 he started creating collections for some of the top fashion houses including Callaghan, Complice, and Genny.

 

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Along with his brother, he founded the Gianne Versace company in 1978. He debut his first women’s collection in Milan the same year. This first debut was a major success and Gianne Versace spent the next many years designing clothing for both men and women. Versace also spent many years designing costumes for several different theatre groups. He has won several awards throughout the years for his designs.

 

The company started selling perfume for women and colognes for men as well. Versace men’s cologne comes in many different scents, all of which are manly and sophisticated. The colognes offer hints of citrus, floral, and wood. Most men will find that there is a Versace man’s cologne available that will suit your needs. Most of the colognes from Versace are fairly reasonably priced, making them suitable for every type of budget. Here are some of the Versace scents currently available.

 

Versace Eros is one of the newer men’s fragrances offered by Versace. Eros is the god of love and the fragrance does everything it can to allude to this. The fragrance is made for a man who is strong and passionate. The notes of the scent include cedar wood, moss, vetiver, vanilla, geranium flower, Tonka bean, green apple, lemon, and mint oil. These ingredients offer a unique blend that is manly and sophisticated.

 

 Versace Pour Homme is another newer fragrance offered by Versace. The cologne offers a blend of Mediterranean ingredients to match the self-confident and knowledgeable man of today. The fragrance offers notes of Tonka Bean, mineral amber, old wood, cedar wood, blue hyacinth, sage, geranium, bitter orange leaves, citron of diamante, neroli, bergamot, and musk to create a scent that is unique, strong, and virtuosic.

  

Versace Man Eau Fraiche.This Versace men’s cologne was launched by the company in 2006. Olivier Cresp is the nose behind this particular scent. The top notes of the cologne include rose, rosewood, bergamot, and lemon. The middle notes consist of pepper, sage, tarragon, and cedar. The base notes are woodier and include saffron, musk, and amber. The scent is recommended for casual wear and is classified as being aquatic.

 

 Versace launched its L’ Homme men’s cologne in 1986. Versace was the nose behind this particular fragrance. The top notes of the cologne consist of pimento, basil, petite grain, and lemon. Middle notes consist of rose, sandalwood, patchouli, cedar, and cinnamon. The Versace men’s cologne ends with notes of vanilla, Tonka, labdanum, leather, and oak moss. The classification for this cologne is woody and it is recommended for casual wear.

 

 Dreamer was launched by Versace in 1996. It is a men’s cologne that possesses a blend of tobacco, wildflowers, amber, and linen. This cologne offers and extremely fresh smell. It is the perfect choice for a man that does not want anything to strong. It is recommended for casual wear.

Meet Laith Ashley: Hunky Transgender Male Model

 

'When I look in the mirror, I am satisfied': Hunky transgender man finds success as a male model just two years after he started taking testosterone.

 

• Laith Ashley, 26, says he knew there was a 'misalignment' between his body and mind when he was a five-year-old girl
• He came out as gay to his parents at 17 but didn't realize he was trans until many years later.
• He walked the runway at New York Fashion Week in February and also appeared in a Barney's New York campaign.
• Whoopi Goldberg and Laverne Cox are fans of the New Yorker,

A hunky New York model who's racked up tens of thousands of Instagram followers is known for his piercing eyes, broad shoulders, and sexy six-pack — and, if you know his backstory, the fact that he used to be a woman.

 

Laith Ashley, 26, has been finding success in the modeling world since he started transitioning two years ago, walking in shows for Adrian Alicea and Gypsy Sport during New York Fashion Week this February and even posing for a Barney's New York campaign with legendary fashion photographer Bruce Weber.

'Being a model now is definitely exciting. I'm always shocked when I'm walking to the gym or going to the store and people recognize me. It makes me feel good, but it can be a bit of shock.' 

Laith had a great time taking to the runway, thought it wasn't exactly where he thought he'd end up.

'New York Fashion Week was fun — it's funny as I never intended to get into modelling,' he said. 'It just happened... [but] everything happens for a reason and I'm really excited to see where it goes from here.'

The muscular New Yorker was just five when he noticed the 'misalignment' with his body and gender identity, he said. When he was a 17-year-old girl, still not quite sure of who he was, he came out as gay to his parents.

 

'At the time I didn't know what transgender was, so I just told them I had a girlfriend,' he explained. 'But I never felt right with the idea of being a lesbian woman.'

Finally, a year before he medically transitioned, he broke the news to his mom. 

'My mom is Pentecostal Christian, and although she loves me she felt it conflicted with her faith,' he said, adding that she now brags about him to her friends at church. 'My dad was fine. I told him that if he is proud of me, it takes away the power of people who criticize. Who cares what other people think, if he is proud?' 

After two years of being on testosterone, Laith underwent surgery in 2015. 

 

'There was a lot of fear at first. It took me six years from the moment I came out as trans to actually begin my medical transition,' he recalled. 'Once I got over that fear, there was no stopping me. I am the most comfortable I have ever been.'

Now, he works out three times a week to keep himself muscular, and flexes his incredibly toned physique online.

'When I look in the mirror, I am satisfied with that image. It is how I want to present myself to the world. This is me,' he said. 

 

Still, he's been thrown a bit off-balance by all of the attention. Since he began modeling, he's earned almost 60,000 Instagram followers and support from celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg and transgender actress Laverne Cox. But while the attention was exciting at first, it soon became too much.

'I went through a period of being very overwhelmed. I focused on all the negative comments I was receiving and just wanted to disappear,' he said. 'I never thought of myself as a role model. It was a label placed upon me after my photos began circulating through social media.'

 

Laith, who used to work as an insurance navigator at Callen Lorde Community Health Center, said he is still passionate about being an activist for the LGBT community.

'I know many look up to me, because I may fit the image they wish to achieve, which I find incredibly humbling, but I want them to also know that their life journey is their own.'"People should be true to themselves - they don't have to fit a box."

Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy and his family appeared on Celebrity Family Feud this weekend to play for the Happy Hippie Foundation, a charity founded by Miley Cyrus to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations. - See more at: http://www.thegailygrind.com/2016/08/28/steve-harvey-to-parents-who-reject-their-lgbt-kids-i-will-never-stop-loving-my-kid/#sthash.edlHCniI.dpuf

Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy and his family appeared on Celebrity Family Feud this weekend to play for the Happy Hippie Foundation, a charity founded by Miley Cyrus to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations. - See more at: http://www.thegailygrind.com/2016/08/28/steve-harvey-to-parents-who-reject-their-lgbt-kids-i-will-never-stop-loving-my-kid/#sthash.edlHCniI.dpuf

Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy and his family appeared on Celebrity Family Feud this weekend to play for the Happy Hippie Foundation, a charity founded by Miley Cyrus to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations. - See more at: http://www.thegailygrind.com/2016/08/28/steve-harvey-to-parents-who-reject-their-lgbt-kids-i-will-never-stop-loving-my-kid/#sthash.edlHCniI.dpuf

Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy and his family appeared on Celebrity Family Feud this weekend to play for the Happy Hippie Foundation, a charity founded by Miley Cyrus to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBTQ youth and other vulnerable populations. - See more at: http://www.thegailygrind.com/2016/08/28/steve-harvey-to-parents-who-reject-their-lgbt-kids-i-will-never-stop-loving-my-kid/#sthash.edlHCniI.dpufModel Laith Ashley covers the June issue of Attitude magazine, along with out champion canoeist Matt Lister.
Ashley first came to our collective attention in Barneys New York's groundbreaking Brother, Sisters, Sons & Daughters campaign, shot by Bruce Weber and featuring other models who happened to be trans. However, as he tells trans activist Paris Lees, the spotlight had a darker side.

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“People were really nasty and for about three weeks I just couldn’t stop reading the comments," Ashley said of the Instagram trolls. "I knew I shouldn’t have, but I kept reading and the more I read, the worse the comments got.
"I’ve learned that you can’t please everyone.”