The 5 most beautiful houses of fashion designers What's better, Armani's milanese apartment or Rick Owens' brutalist loft?

It is often said that fashion brands do not sell clothes but a lifestyle – lifestyle of which the great fashion designers are the main interpreters. It is not surprising, then, that these entrepreneurs and creatives live in houses that live up to the dream they sell. The houses of the great designers are often so large and lavish that, when their owner leaves them, they become hotels as happened at Gianni Versace's Casa Casuarina in Miami, Villa Laetitia in Rome or Il Borro by Salvatore Ferragamo, which is not a simple estate but contains an entire medieval village inside. But for that very reason, they couldn't find a place on our list. 

Below nss magazine has listed the five most beautiful residences that bear the signature of the big names in fashion history, from the garden house of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé to the surrealist mansion of Pierre Cardin. 

Yves Saint Laurent's Orientalist villa 

Rick Owens bought the former headquarters of the socialist party French in 2004, in Place du Palais Bourbon – a palace that apparently no one wanted to buy. "We just ripped everything away," the designer said, commenting on the restoration work, "but we left the concrete floors and everything in between – the bare bones of the house." Not many, in fact, if they had Owens' budget would leave the plaster in pieces and exposed bricks, but the contrasting effect that is created with the fine leathers of the furniture, all designed by Owens himself, with his usual mix of alien shapes and luxury materials. The result is dark minimalism with a raw look – a perfect match of his designer's clothes.