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R Viewing a Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda collection is a curious exercise; While fashion shows are generally aimed at publishers and buyers, these weekend extravagances allow us to play the supporting role with their extremely rich clientele, and the occasions themselves look more like Disneyland than ever before. 39, traditional track decorations. Example: on arrival at the venue of the presentation of this season – a breathtaking villa located on the picturesque Lake Como – there were nuns and mustaches serving champagne glasses, a costumed orchestra and a lawn lit by hundreds of tiny candles.
There were guests dressed in this kind of splendid outfits that you will never see apart from a fashion shoot (a woman's dress, a huge number of feathers, must have cost some hundreds of thousands of euros last season in New York)) children adorned with children's clothing D & G; accessories more richly inlaid than you could count. The woman next to me said that she had not missed a summer show for six years and, throughout the show, instead of publishing the photos that she has taken on Instagram, she sent them directly to Dolce to place orders. It completely bypasses the system that we set up in this industry – and, although it makes my role pretty redundant, it has made a brilliantly refreshing society.
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But for those who do not fly to watch the show and shop, here's the cheat sheet: it was Dolce & Gabbana; Overblown opulence at its best. The starting point of the collection was The Betrothed a 19th century novel by Alessandro Manzoni who is widely regarded as having laid the foundations of modern Italian (a costumed Manzoni was in hand throughout of the evening). book with a feather – see, Disneyland). The Betrothed takes place in Lake Como, and its two protagonists – damned lovers separated by nuns and thugs (those who serve champagne) – have clearly inspired the hyper feminine opening looks (flying dresses), and strictly dress (topstitched tuxedos).
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But Dolce & Gabbana does not let the scenario of artistic storytelling go. Quickly, the collection turns into something else: a bohemian stop-over tour through the ages, inspired by the kinds of European aristos that would have once taken Grand Tours across this region . Think: The big numbers of Gatsby worn with clapper headdresses and long cigarette holders; Lace Embroidery 70s sparkling beaded cutouts; Peggy Guggenheim silhouettes with matching oversized glasses. The eccentricity of Monied is a playground for the extraordinary craftsmanship that goes into these collections – and, given their audience, it makes perfect sense.
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A hundred or so looks appeared, a series of theatrical dresses appeared, some full with feathers, some with postcard impressions of our surroundings, or decorated with umbrellas in bloom, and the woman next to me began to curl. Men on scaffolding grabbed buckets of rose petals and threw them into wind machines, covering the final procession with floral confetti. The designers emerged, the 120 models gathered on the steps of the villa in the most perfect moment imaginable, and the public rushed to them to take a closer look at the outfits and complete their shopping lists. It's fascinating to see these clothes in this decor; to witness the extraordinary exchange between these designers and their customers. Usually, high fashion buyers are kept secret by our journalists: here they appear on the front of the stage. Want a selfie with Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova or Helena Christensen? The chance to rub shoulders with the men who create these pieces? All is happily proposed here.
To close the evening, everyone took a boat to be mass-shipped to a huge outdoor dinner for all participants and, when we docked, we had to cross shop before we got it. have done at our tables. People bought crocodile leather moccasins at 11pm; there were cheerleaders parading in the tables; fireworks between courts; an open-air nightclub installed all night on the shores of the lake
The dancefloor was filled with unimaginable wealth: the oligarchs and their wives, the captains of industry, the people who can lay hundreds thousands of evening clothes. By the end of the evening, heaps of richly decorated shoes and purses, thousands of pounds of Dolce, had been left in piles by the DJ's booth to allow those who wore them to continue. You could not catch him. Tomorrow, all this will happen again for Alta Sartoria, the male component of the business. For some, this must be the happiest place on earth. For others, it's only another weekend in the world of Dolce & Gabbana.
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