It’s the end of an era at the House of Medusa—and the start of a new one. On Thursday, Versace announced that Donatella Versace, the pure embodiment of the brand’s va-va-voom glamor, is stepping down as creative director after nearly three decades. Her successor is Dario Vitale, a rising star who was most recently the design director of Miu Miu.

Gianni founded Versace in 1978 with his brother, Santo, becoming CEO while Donatella worked on Atelier Versace and Versus – it was during this time that she introduced the infamous safety pin dress, which Elizabeth Hurley rocked at the Four Weddings and a Funeral premiere in 1994.

Donatella — who took the reins of Versace after the 1997 murder of her brother, Gianni, and has since been the driving force behind the brand’s evolution — will now become Chief Brand Ambassador