ITALY: Dolce & Gabbana show a gallery of gowns

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. The black background 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 told Reuters 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. 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 to be 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. And 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 American actress Rose McGowan, rumoured to be recently engaged to director Robert Rodriguez.

ITN Source | September 28, 2007

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