Image via Versace and Riccardo Tisci on Instagram

After a preview of Riccardo Tisci and Donatella Versace collaboration for Givenchy Autumn/Winter 15 back in April, here’s a new image: this time Versace is pictured solo without the creative director for the new visual shot by photography duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott (who also shot Versace’s new campaign for AW15).

Versace remarks that they did the ad to create a bold statement together. “I believe in breaking rules,” Versace writes in the caption of an Instagram post. “I want to get rid of the old system, work together, support each other and make fashion a true global community.” Two of the largest fashion houses in the business teaming up is certainly a groundbreaking step in that direction. The fact that the two share a mutual admiration for one another also may have played a part in this coming together. 

The image is spliced with a group shot of Givenchy models including Mariacarla Boscono. The Mert & Marcus lensed shoot was styled by former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and founder of the esteemed CR Fashion Book, Carine Roitfeld, with make-up by Lucia Pieroni and hair by Sam McKnight.