Donatella’s Golden Goodbye: Kate Moss leads Model Greetings in farewell that also has a silver lining

While most people can leave their job that holds a scented candle or a carriage clock, the event deserves more than just a fast office muffround.

To mark the release of her latest collection for the fashion house that she helped for almost 30 years, the beloved designer gathered a crowd of her best friends for a departure, kind.

The fact that the aforementioned friends are super models meant that it would have been rude not to make the party in a fashion shoot – and of course it contained her characteristic gold and silver chainpail dresses.

Fortunately, famous photographers Mert and Marcus (Mert Unfortunately and Marcus Piggott) were present to catch the antics of 25 models, including Kate MossClaudia Schiffer and Amber Valetta, and make the images in the new fall/winter advertising campaign from Versace.

Such as the end of an era, the campaign contains a ‘biggest hits’ compilation of the classic Versace Chainmail dresses that have found favor with fans over the years, including Angelina Jolie” Britney Spears” Blake Lively And Elizabeth Hurley.

While some in the campaign will be available to buy next season, others are archive documents from the 1990s and early 2000s.

Seasoned fashion viewers may remember a young Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell who in 1999 bear silver iterations to the Golden Globes.

In 2017, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of Gianni Versace, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Carla Bruni and Claudia Schiffer made a rare catwalk -appearing in matching silver chainmail evening dresses.

Glossy: models including Kate Moss, Center, and Claudia Schiffer, second from the left, in the final collection of Versace

And if you are wondering if you have to splash on a new chainmail dress, which costs in the £ 3,000 region, it is worth taking into account that the original versions of the nineties to £ 15,000 can get on resale sites.

‘Empowered’ is how Donatella, 69, described the feeling of her 12.4 million Instagram followers to witness the shoot.

“The energy was extraordinary,” she added. ‘The dresses reflect the light that radiates from these wonderful women.

‘It was all about friendship, loyalty and love, made to celebrate the soul of the Versace woman.

“Every collection is a story, and this is the story of Versace, which inspires the present and anticipates the future.”

For Donatella, who helped Versace since her brother, Gianni, was brutally murdered in 1997, the future is uncertain.

Politated artists: from the left, Carla Bruni, Claudia Schiffer, Donatella Versace, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Helena Christensen in Silver Dresses in 2017

In March, Versace was sold to Prada Group in a $ 1.375 billion deal (£ 1.06 billion) that unites two of the greatest brands on Italian fashion, in which Donatella’s decades of friendship was cemented with designer Miuccia Prada and the plans of the French GiCs’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury ‘luxury’ luxury.

Although Donatella Chief Brand remains Ambassador, she will no longer be creative director and see the new era ‘Versada’ unfold from a position of greater freedom, if not control.