Creative director Dario Vitale is leaving Italian fashion brand Versace only eight months after he was appointed, the company said in a statement Thursday.

The Prada Group has officially purchased Milan fashion rival Versace for $1.375 billion.

Prada heir Lorenzo Bertelli is set to play a major strategic role as executive chairman of Versace following the Prada Group's 1.25 billion-euro deal to acquire its rival.

Versace has launched Dario Vitale as its new creative director during Milan Fashion Week.

The Prada Group has agreed to buy rival Versace from the U.S. luxury group Capri Holdings in a deal valuing the Milan fashion house at 1.25 billion euros ($1.4 billion.

Donatella Versace has been replaced as creative director of the fashion house founded by her late brother Gianni Versace.

The Prada Group has posted double-digit growth for the fourth consecutive year, bucking the luxury sector slide amid talk of a possible Versace acquisition.

Donatella Versace strutted a confident collection brimming with house codes during Milan Fashion Week amid speculation that the fashion house is on the market.

WNBA players have amped up their clothes game, garnering attention off the court for their pregame fashion choices.

Victoria Monét walked the Grammys red carpet Sunday in a bronze Versace goddess body-hugger, her adorable 2-year-old and fellow nominee, Hazel, in a matching color.

Donatella Versace slammed the Italian government for what she described as anti-gay policies in a heartfelt and personal speech that referenced her late brother, Gianni Versace, while receiving a fashion award this weekend.

Fan Bingbing made a regal entrance in sparkling silver and emerald green as the champagne-colored carpet heated up Sunday at the 95th Academy Awards.

Decamping from her usual base in Milan to show her wares in Los Angeles — only three days before the Oscars — Donatella Versace says she was inspired by the energy, glamour and power of Hollywood.

There was a massive counterfeit of goods bust involving purses, sunglasses, and other merchandise with brand names like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Versace. The items weren’t authentic, and now several people face charges in a big counterfeiting bust.

(AP Photo/Pamela Hassell)SACRAMENTO, Calif. – With coronavirus cases surging at a record pace, California Gov. The new rules are the Newsom administration's latest attempt to control a virus that is spreading at rates that astonished health experts. The curfew from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. had little impact, Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state's top public health officer, acknowledged Thursday. “We do not have adequate data to know where transmissions are occurring and that reflects a failure of public health,” he said. “That’s not the way we traditionally work in public health,” he said.

Pedestrians pass by a screen showing a Versace model, during the Milan Digital Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, July 16, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)MILAN The coronavirus-provoked fashion runway rethink was in full swing on the last day of Milans first Digital Fashion Week. Ermengildo Zegnas so-called Phygital presentation was a hybrid of physical and digital experiences that could be the harbinger for runway shows to come for the brand celebrating 110 years. Gucci, meanwhile, has already announced that it will eschew destination runway shows and whittle down its calendar to two events a year, in a bid for prudence. And this is my experiment.The digital experiment this fashion week -- conceived out of epidemiological necessity -- had the effect of emphasizing the absence of energy normally generated by the live shows.

It was 2000, and Jennifer Lopez wore that plunging, green jungle-inspired Versace dress to the Grammy Awards, causing so many searches on Google that the company had to create Google Images. The dress went viral before viral was a thing. And now, almost 20 years later, J.Lo wore an updated version of it -- this time, at Versace's jungle-themed Spring 2020 show during Milan Fashion Week. J.Lo closed out the show with a bang, with the crowd rising to their feet as J.Lo strutted down the runaway in a remaking of the original dress from 2000. It's also one of Donatella Versace's most iconic dresses and helped make the designer a household name.