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THE KING OF KITSCH; The jaw-dropping contents of Gianni Versace's villa will be auctioned off this week. But who'd want to buy ANY of it?

Publication: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Publication Date: 16-MAR-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: THE KING OF KITSCH; The jaw-dropping contents of Gianni Versace's villa will be auctioned off this week. But who'd want to buy ANY of it?(News)

Article Excerpt
Byline: by Tom Mitchelson

WHEN you survey the 500 or so objets d'art taken from the Lake Como villa of the late Gianni Versace -- which will go under the hammer at Sotheby's in London on Wednesday -- you realise he was a man of taste.

Appalling taste.

Quite how someone of such grotesquely kitsch sensibilities came to be a byword for fashion and style must rank as one of the mysteries of our age.

When, in 1997, a deranged gunman shot him dead, aged 50, on the steps of his Miami mansion, he was the head of a style empire that was worth [pounds sterling]625 million.

Yet what this auction reveals is that he didn't know the first thing about style. For if you thought Versace's fashion range was vulgar, just wait until you see his home furnishings.

To show off the collection at its showrooms in London, Sotheby's has recreated the style and layout...

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