DONATELLA: "The ability to make fire has always been a sign of human ingenuity. In Greek mythology, fire is what the intelligent Prometheus stole from Zeus and gave to mortals. This lighter, covered in white Swarovski crystals and bearing the Versace Medusa-head motif in gold - a reference to another Greek myth - is a portable fire-maker and that is why I have chosen it for the time capsule. It's both useful and symbolic of the human spirit."
For Dazed and Confused's twentieth birthday issue they have invited fashion's finest to choose an object to put in a time capsule for the next twenty years. There are a lot of wanky and annoying contributions as well as some thinly disguised press releases [*cough cough milliner Stephen Jones] but I loved Donatella's, pretentious chat about the Greeks and all... a pleasing combination of pyromania, mythology and, staying true to Gianni, gold and diamonds.
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