A new unauthorized biopic on the life of late Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace has found its leading man in Antonio Banderas.

The Spanish-American actor signed on to play the iconic designer last year and began filming scenes in Milan around December, before production moves to Reggio Calabria, the southern town where Versace was born and then to Miami, where he was murdered by a serial killer in 1997.

Banderas shocked the fashion world last year when he enrolled as a fashion student at the renown Central Saint Martins university. In May, he presented his first 30-piece collection with Scandinavian label Selected at a presentation in London.

Speaking with 1granary at the time, Banderas said he began pursuing fashion because he's "done 92 movies" and "there were other things in my life that I was interested in."

He added that much of the designs were actually influenced by Versace's early designs.

"Probably one of the happiest times of my life was the Eighties, and I remember Versace putting gold with leather," he told Women's Wear Daily.

"I had this in mind, so we wanted to add the gold color, it’s those little details. I love motorcycles, I ride motorcycles, so we wanted to have a jacket that I can use and people with bikes can use for that purpose."

Though the biopic doesn't have a release date or trailer yet, a rep for the Versace estate said it "should only be seen as a work of fiction," as members of the estate "neither authorized nor had any involvement whatsoever in the…film."