It will be a fairy-tale wardrobe for Dolce & Gabbana fans next winter, with the Italian fashion brand presenting enchanting fantasy creations for its latest womenswear line at Milan Fashion Week on Sunday.
Against a backdrop of an open story book, golden carriage and a clock ticking towards midnight, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana sent models out in a typically colourful and vibrant collection of richly-embellished dresses with patterns referring to stories such as Cinderella and Snow White.
Sparkling sequined mice, carriages, hand mirrors stitched with “Who is the beautiful?”, fairy godmothers and gold slippers were among the decorations adorning glittering dresses.
Cinderella’s ballgown was given a modern makeover in a shimmering fitted light blue dress with enlarged shoulders. The model was also accompanied by her wishful washerwoman self, wearing a short silken dress with her sewing mice.
Then the designers suggested the Dolce & Gabbana woman is her own prince, creating short bolero jackets with military details and pants that just cover the knees with stripes down the side. Those looks were finished with military boots.
There was also a plethora of black dresses, including one sexy ruched dress that epitomised the brand, though it may be reaching to say they were for the requisite evil queen. The designers also made oversized furry coats in big shimmering stripes of silver and gold or covered with floral appliques.
On one black dress, “Dreaming Of My Prince” was written out in sequins while one of the bags models carried was designed to look like a small golden carriage with wheels.
The fairytale decorations also came on sequined oversized jumpers, worn with cropped trousers, and footwear that consisted of Cinderella-style transparent and shiny bejewelled heels.
The designers also used plenty of floral, cat and apple prints on dresses, trousers and tops. Cut-out flowers decorated shoulders of coats and flat headpieces.
Black and white tweed coats and large dresses also had embroidered sparkling flowers. Models also wore long shirt dresses as well as black lace outfits. The fairy tale is one of the fashion world’s most obvious references, and the designers turned it around by focusing on a new generation of princesses who they described as “individuals first and foremost.”
But they couldn’t resist a happy ending: The finale was a flourish of pretty fuchsia, pink and silver beaded and crystal dresses.
