MILAN — Celebrities flocked to Milan Fashion Week on Saturday, the final day of runway shows, sending masses of adoring fans from venue to venue.
Madonna sat in the front row at Dolce & Gabbana, alongside Naomi Campbell and Victoria De Angelis of Maneskin. Damiano David, the frontman of Maneskin, attended Diesel, one of the season’s most popular shows, across town. Jacob Elordi took a seat in a bunny-shaped bean bag chair to watch the Bottega Veneta show.
Highlights from Milan Fashion Week’s largely womenswear previews for next spring and summer, held on Saturday.
Dolce & Gabbana celebrates Madonna.
Madonna made a semi-stealth entry to the Dolce & Gabbana catwalk show covered in a black veil, echoing her 1990s glory and praising the cone bra.
Models paraded in Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s iconic corsets and fitting jackets, each incorporating the aggressively feminine cone bra, in a collection that notes stated: “pays homage to an ironic and powerful female figure.”
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Madonna was not particularly mentioned, but the Milan designers and pop singer have been working together since 1993 when they created costumes for her Girlie Show tour. The tour supported Madonna’s “Erotica” album, which was released alongside her taboo-breaking coffee table book “Sex.”
Madonna has always been our icon. Many aspects in our lives have changed because of her,” the designers stated in a message.
The collection, titled “Italian Beauty,” brilliantly depicted that point in time. Cone bras poked out of cropped jackets with pencil skirts, garters hung from corsets, and coats molded the figure. Floral designs reappeared to enhance a black, nude, red, and white color scheme. Oversized crucifix earrings completed the look. The heels were unashamedly high.
After taking their bows, the designers headed down the runway to meet their guest of honor. Madonna, still wearing the Chantilly long lace veil with a gold and crystal crown, stood to embrace them both.
Bottega Veneta taps Wonder.
Bottega Veneta’s sometimes misplaced, sometimes crinkled, always intriguing collection delves into the crossroads of reality and dream, adulthood and infancy. Matthieu Blazy, the creative director, has a simple meaning: to delight.
“We need beauty. “We need joy,” Blazy stated backstage. “We need the experimental act. It’s also an act of liberation.”
In this reality, a dental clinic receptionist wears a skirt with a pant on only one leg, which Blazy describes as a fun gesture. In a typical sight, a well-dressed father transports his daughter’s pink and purple schoolbag. Do we like the bag? I do not know. Does it tell a story? “Yes,” Blazy answered.
Each element is intentional, from a flat collar on a dress styled like rabbit ears to large colorful raffia wigs, even if their ultimate goal is simply for fun. Crinkled garments represent a child’s attempt to dress up, which is wrecked at the end of the day.
Blazy’s characters carried what appeared to be typical plastic shopping bags, but they were constructed of nylon and leather as part of the brand’s continual technological breakthroughs. The faux plastic bags represented everyday life and were joined by the brand’s signature woven bags, one for a violin and another for a wine bottle.
Ferragamo’s freedom of movement
Maximilian Davis, Ferragamo’s creative director, praised the freedom of movement inherent in ballet in his new collection, which was inspired by archive pictures of company founder Salvatore Ferragamo fitting African American ballet dancer Katherine Dunham with shoes.
Dunham frequently taught and worked in the Caribbean, allowing the British designer with Jamaican ancestry “to find a link between Ferragamo’s Italian-ness and my heritage.”
The design is inspired by 1980s fashion, with broad shoulders and exaggerated tailoring, and pays homage to Russian ballet great Rudolf Nureyev, another long-time Ferragamo customer.
To emphasize movement, Davis designed long parachute gowns in silk nylon, suede, and organza with a billowing bubble form. Ballet dancers are honored with color-blocked cashmere shawls and layered leotards. More subversively, torn denim shorts resembled a tutu.
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Diesel enhances denim.
Diesel models walked through 14,800 kilograms (almost 33,000 pounds) of denim shreds to showcase the beauty of waste and create a dystopian atmosphere for their current enhanced denim collection.
Under creative director Glenn Martens, the Veneto-based business has transformed into a textile experimental laboratory. Short shorts are embellished with a waterfall of extra-long fringe, creating a skirt-like look. Jeans are laser-cut to look ruined, and cotton sweatshirt necklines appear distressed, but the impression is actually a jacquard with the cotton burned away to the tulle.
Marten’s stated that the brand’s “disruption” extends beyond its design. “We are pushing for circularity in our production,” he explained. In similar vein, a coat was constructed from discarded spools of denim thread, and giant jeans were made from recycled cotton, some of which was produced by Diesel itself. The scraps on the floor were to be recycled after the show.
SOURCE | AP
