Lots of people who know Versace only for its pulse-racing eveningwear were left bemused when Julia Roberts arrived in Venice —where she is promoting Luca Guadagnino ’s After The Hunt —wearing the first design to be revealed publicly under Dario Vitale ’s creative directorship: a wool jacket, striped shirting, and straight-legged denim with pumps. The response from some online was “ How is this Versace ?”—a comment that proliferated further when Roberts later wore a crepe-de-chine gown on the red carpet, with few recognizing its harlequin motifs as a reference to Gianni Versace’s fall winter 1986 collection .

I’m inclined to side with Vitale’s equally vocal supporters: Roberts looked “fab, actually.” (Power, seduction and everything else Versace stands for can be commun

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