MILAN — Versace is now officially part of the Prada Group, having received the final green light from regulators to complete the deal — and an endorsement from Donatella Versace herself.

In her Instagram post on Tuesday, marking her brother Gianni’s birth date “and the day Versace joins the Prada family,” the designer added, “I am thinking of the smile you would have had on your face.”

In one image above the caption, Gianni is seen in his atelier in 1979, surrounded by clothes and fabrics, while in the second image, photographed by Karl Lagerfeld for Vanity Fair in 1996 at the Jungle Sound Studio in Milan, he is captured with Miuccia Prada, both sitting behind musical scores and smiling broadly. He is holding a violin, she a cello.

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