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Collages of posters, magazine clippings, and Polaroids that often plastered the walls of teenage bedrooms in the aughts hinted at what the younger generation deemed “cool” at the time—most likely, XYZ celebrity, band, movie, artist, or designer. Today, a cohort of digitally-savvy users replicate that very same level of obsession on Instagram via finstas, fan pages, and fervent support. At least that’s what 22-year-old Ketevan Gagoshidze did when she first set up @datewithversace in 2018, an account wholly dedicated to documenting her fascination with the Italian luxury house’s digital memorabilia that she’s collected over the years.
Think: interview clippings featuring pearls of wisdom from founder Gianni Versace himself, editorials from the ‘90s featuring O.G. supermodels like Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista repping designs now only available on vintage resale websites, and grainy, yet palpably chic, videos of its fashion shows from a time when livestreams didn’t exist. To populate her feed, Gagoshidze, who’s based in Tbilisi, Georgia, scours the internet high and low for Versace relics that feed her nostalgia for moments that took place before she was even born. “In fashion, you need to know the archive, because it contains a lifetime,” she tells ELLE.com. “Everything new is something old.”
