Versace's Double Feature

(NEW YORK) 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. "They're clearly in a very good place; it was obviously a huge coup."

Bazaar contributing editor Tatianna Sorokko styled the story last fall following the collections, and in the six-page spread-written by Merle Ginsberg and shot by Dewey Nicks-the two speak candidly about their relationship and coping with constant media scrutiny. 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."