ITALY: Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana show their new collection that makes gowns look like an artist's canvas

Dolce & Gabbana's womenswear show on Thursday (September 27) took paint-spattered fabrics, scrunched them up and buoyed them with layers of net for gowns that looked like a throwaway artist's canvas. Black dresses were splashed and whirled with white and daubed with magenta, or bright green, pink and purple to provide an unforgettable finale to the show. Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana said the idea for the collection came from the hall of the Gramercy Park hotel in New York, where baroque divans are set against a background of huge contemporary paintings. "We were in New York at the Gramercy Park hotel, in the hall, and there were these baroque divans, which are very Dolce & Gabbana, with these huge paintings and it was there that we got the idea to do a collection like this, to dedicate a collection to contemporary art," said Gabbana. The divans turned up in the collection in heavy crimson brocade or green velvet and gold fabric, which was used for short skirts that flared fully from the waist or a square-necked straight dress. And the designers also used the brocade and paint for shoes, which stuck with a trend here in Milan this week, being high-heeled and high gloss. 'It's a very personal collection, where a woman can really express her own will, her own sensuality, it's not too sugary … there are no bows, no flowers, no lace. It's very linear, so more than romantic we call it sensual. It's not aggressive, it's very personal," said Domenico Dolce. At the end of the show the two designers had time to pose with two of the stars at the show, super model Naomi Campbell and U.S. actress Rose McGowan, rumoured to be recently engaged to director Robert Rodriguez.

ITN Source | October 4, 2007

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