Since succeeding Donatella Versace as Versace creative director in March this year, Dario Vitale has begun to shape a bold new vision for the iconic Italian house.

With this, Vitale introduces Versace Embodied, a new, multi-chapter project that asks: what does Versace mean to the people shaping culture today? For this, Vitale has tapped a cast of renowned artists to respond to that question, asking them to rework, remix, and reinterpret the house’s DNA through their own lens. The result is an evolving archive of emblems, artefacts, and offbeat creations that represent the house and speak to identity, legacy, and self-expression.

The inaugural chapter includes Camille Vivier, who shares a Polaroid of the iconic Medusa cast that decorates the door of the original Versace atelier, Collier Schorr, who offers a drawn illustration, and Steven Meisel, who plucks a 1997 photograph from his archive. Other names include photographer Andrea Modica, poet and novelist Eileen Myles, model, musician, dancer and curator of Ponyboy, Olly Elyte, and model and artist Binx Walton.