Show report: Dolce & Gabbana prefers its family photos in black and white (and …

January 18, 2015 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events

Designers always have an inspiration that permeates the clothes
they show on the catwalk, but rarely does this inspiration spill
over from the models to the very fabric of the show itself. One
reason that the GQ team looks forward to the Dolce Gabbana Milan Fashion Week
show so much is seeing how the design duo kit out their show
space – an impressively large former cinema in the heart of Milan -
to reflect their chosen theme. We’ve seen it all in this space:
from medieval castles to chandeliers dripping with red roses. This
time we were greeted with perhaps the most pared down space yet,
with the walls simply covered in deep red felt and a black curtain
at the end of the catwalk.

According to the invitation (hand-written in gold
market pen) family was this season’s buzzword. That fact became
abundantly clear as the lights dimmed and the black curtains
whipped back to reveal perhaps the most stylish family we’ve ever
seen. Posed against the mottled grey colourama was a matriarch on
her throne with a young granddaughter, along with sleek aunts and
uncles, toddlers suited up in three-pieces and presumably a neice
in beautiful lingerie. We don’t know if these people were related,
but if they were, that family has got some damn good genes.

As the first looks marched onto the catwalk the family
watched on regally with the occasional doting move from a
well-dressed parent. The clothes for the next season were, as many
of the shows have been for the first day of Milan Fashion Week,
dominated by grey-on-grey, with the occasional burst of claret
echoing the walls behind us. Shapes were slimmer than precious
seasons, with suits worn with trim trousers and close-cut double
breasted jackets, tailored silk pyjamas and stretchy jogging
bottoms.

Top layers added volume to give any guy wearing the
clothes the impression of that kind of V-shaped torso any gym-goer
constantly chases. Oversized sweatshirts featuring collaged
material families with delicate gold details, grey floral patterns
clashes against contrast-patterned trousers and baseball jackets
sloganed with “amore per sempre” sewn on like letters on a classic
varsity.

As always there were a lot of looks to process, but as the
models returned triumphantly to the catwalk for the finale you
could see that, even for designers as accomplished as the Siciliam
twosome, this was a masterful show – with more of a sense of humour
than many of their previous seasons. So good in fact, that even the
suited-up toddler on his mum’s lap in the tableau at the back burst
into applause. We’re on the same page, little guy.