Donatella Versace is to step down as the main designer for the Versace brand after almost three decades, a move that has fanned talk of a sale of the business to rival Italian fashion house Prada .

A proposed tie-up between Prada and Versace is just the start ...

for the business founded by the late Gianni Versace in the 1970s, where his sister Donatella has been the creative head for more than two decades. Prada, listed in Hong Kong but controlled by ...

which was founded in 1978 and has been under the creative direction of Donatella Versace for more than 20 years. Bernstein luxury analyst Luca Solca said Prada "may be getting Versace on the cheap ...

A potential acquisition of the fashion house renowned for its flashy ready-to-wear clothing designed by Donatella Versace — sister of the founder — would allow Prada to create a larger Italian ...