Glenda Bailey Lands Allegra Beck interview



Glenda Bailey, who is sort of the neglected red-headed stepchild among the more glam Fashion Editrixes, landed a coup: She landed the vaunted first American interview with Allegra Beck (Allegra: Call me?). Who knew Glenda had that kind of stroke? From Fashionweekdaily:

"With one highly praised collection after another, not to mention a recent Rodeo Drive Walk of Style award celebration that drew nearly every VIP in Los Angeles, Donatella Versace is certainly riding high in fashion circles as of late. But it was Glenda Bailey who got the scoop, landing Versace’s first one-on-one interview with her media-shy daughter, Allegra Beck, for the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar, on newsstands February 20. 'We’d never seen an interview with them together in America, and for Allegra to do an interview about her position in the company, about her mom, and for her mom to talk about their relationship, you really feel the rapport between them,' Bailey said from the front row at Donna Karan during New York’s Fashion Week.

"... The younger Versace, as reported, is spending a semester at UCLA, where she is studying acting, French, and art history. 'I’ve met Allegra a few times,' Bailey continued. “When Gianni [Versace] was alive he used to have these dinners in his apartment after the show and they were real family affairs.'

"But while the 20-year-old doesn’t divulge how she intends to run the fashion empire of which she now controls a majority share, she does offer a down-to-earth—and only in the Versace world—anecdote on her mother. 'I have to see movies first to scout them for her,' she says in the piece. “She hates to sit still for two hours without smoking.'"

Who is Allegra Beck? . From The Gray Lady way back in 2004:

"... on her 18th birthday, Allegra Beck will come into control of her 50 percent of the privately held Versace firm; her mother owns 20 percent and Santo, 30 percent. The family's holdings include the fashion business, which had sales last year of $486 million, as well as a villa on Lake Como and a town house in New York. The family has sold the Miami Beach house.

"Though her name is as prominent as a Hilton, Ms. Beck isn't a typical heiress. This is in part because of what she has endured and in part because her father, Paul Beck, and her mother, who are separated, have shielded her from the news media. She attends a private school in Milan and is often present at her mother's runway shows. But, while Ms. Beck will soon be free to exert control over one of the most famous labels in fashion, she plans to enroll this fall in an American university to study drama and business."

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