A rare double dose of H&M today with the delivery of imagery form the Versace Cruise (or resort) collection for H&M. A highly toned down collection compared to the launch looks. We’re also throwing in the women’s looks from the cruise collection as they complement the men’s well. Unlike most, the Versace for H&M collection will be an online exclusive affair beginning January 19, 2012.

More looks after the click.

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This past Tuesday evening at Pier 54 in New York City, H&M and Donatella Versace unveiled the new Versace for H&M collection to a standout audience of more than 500 guests, including Selectism. The collection, which goes on sale next Thursday, November 17, reboots a fair number of patterns and fabrics from classic Versace garbs.

View the Versace for H&M runway show now.

A quick recap on a collection we missed to mention last week. Luckily for us, the boys at Highsnob took caree of it and bring the full lookbook to your attention. The co-brand collection is a reboot of classic materials and patterns from Versace’s last few decades. Materials in the reboot/collaborative collection, at times, look as though they should have been delivered a few years earlier when the fashion hounds were snapping up these look in vintage shops and eBay. We will give them the benefit of a fresh start though. Not for everyone, but for a select view that have personal confidence in their style work it.

Many more looks at the Versace for H&M Men’s Collection on Highsnobiety.

H&M have announced their latest designer collaboration and it is….drumroll please…..Versace! Look out for a freight train of publicity for this collab in coming future.

GQ UK puts us onto the news that Sothebys have recreated Gianni Versace’s villa ahead of their auction of some of his goods. GQ States:

“Highlights from the Villa Fontanelle – which was sold last year – include 19th-century stucco casts of Antonio Canova’s Pair Of Pugilists estimated to be worth up to £40,000, a pair of cherry-wood bookcases by Karl Roos worth £120,000 and a previously unseen painting by 18th-century artist Johann Zoffany. The lots, numbering 550 in total, are expected to fetch in excess of £2m when they go under the hammer on 18 March.”

Check after the jump for more pictures of Versace’s recreated villa.