Versace launches Chapter Two of Versace Embodied, an ongoing project that defines the House through people, places, and creative emblems. This chapter continues an evolving exchange that gives space to individuals who shape culture through independent practice and personal conviction. Versace positions the project as a conversation that develops over time and remains open to interpretation.
Chapter Two follows the unveiling of the first group of contributors and extends an international collective connected through artistic practice and shared sensibility. The project gathers voices who work across art, photography, music, and film, allowing each contributor to respond directly to Versace through their own medium. The result forms a layered body of work released across several weeks, continuing the cadence established in the first chapter revealed in September.
Drake Carr, Liv Liberg, Jeff Mermelstein, Momo Okabe, and Doug Ordway join the second chapter, following earlier participants. Each contribution stands independently while remaining connected through a shared engagement with Versace’s visual and cultural codes.
Drake Carr presents Love Theme 4:55, a work drawn in 2025 that marks a shift within his interdisciplinary practice. Known for combining dance and live drawing to capture the energy of the body in motion, Carr turns his focus toward a collective portrait. Rather than isolating individuals, the work depicts a community of friends, rendered at life scale with dreamlike intimacy. Figures including ThugPop, John Patrikas, Sebastian Acero, Carrie Stacks, and Chloé Despos appear through close proximity and shared presence, placing connection at the center of the composition.
Liv Liberg contributes Family, photographed in Athens in 2026. Her work centers on female bonds and intergenerational connection. Set within a matriarchal structure, the project traces a relationship between three generations and Versace itself. The grandmother’s early work with the House, the mother’s role in curating its archive, and the daughter’s lived expression of Versace form a continuous line. Liberg approaches the subject with restraint and closeness, focusing on shared experience and continuity.
Jeff Mermelstein’s A Night at La Scala, photographed in 2025, reflects his long-standing approach to street photography. Based in New York, Mermelstein captures the movement, unpredictability, and specificity of urban life. His images operate through immediacy, finding significance in fleeting encounters and unguarded moments.
Momo Okabe presents Colours of Lights, photographed in 2026. Her practice centers on intimacy and exposure, often addressing gender, sex, and sexuality through direct and candid imagery. Okabe’s contribution continues this approach, confronting social boundaries through close, unfiltered perspectives.
Doug Ordway’s contribution draws from the Versace archive, photographed during the 1990s. Having worked with Versace since 1990, Ordway’s images reflect a long-standing relationship with the House. His work captures the body through strength and sensuality, presenting fashion photography as an assertion of presence and attitude.
Chapter Two forms a shared field of expression shaped through distinct practices and perspectives. Versace positions the project as an open framework that values dialogue. By expanding this collective across time and disciplines, the House continues to define itself through cultural participation and creative exchange.
