A fashion fairytale fit for a princess - Grazia's fashion director Rebecca Lowthorpe breaks down the talking points from Dolce & Gabbana's opulent A/W'16 show at Milan Fashion Week
1) Fantasy
Because the fashion audience needs it. Any brand that can cut through the noise, transport you to some fantasy place and make you feel emotionally attached along the way is doing something right - Stefano Gabbana and Dominico Dolce are masters of it. Who cares if the fantasy in question is a literal take on Cinderella? From the set borrowed from La Scala – all gilt chandeliers, giant clock and gold chariot – to the musical invitation, the theatre of Dolce and Gabbana does that rare thing in fashion: makes us smile. And on a wet Sunday afternoon in Milan, there isn’t a fashion fairy tale we’d rather see.
2) Regalia
The clothes, aside from the fairytale faithfuls (prince charming in a military jacket full of medals, a dress made from broken mirror, a gown from a bed of roses) also tapped some of the biggest trends of the week: military jackets festooned with braids, iridescent tinsel-like fabric, voluminous drop-shouldered coats; houndstooth check; velvet; gold; short 1960s shifts; power prints in the form of great lush blooms and sequins galore…
3) Accessorisation
From enormous briefcases (their prince obviously worked in the City) to tiny box bags that came as heavily embellished clocks and even a miniature television, the bag candy was a feast for the eyes. Ditto the shoes: picture high T-bars with golden heels of climbing roses to, yes, you’ve guessed it, glass slippers… Let’s just say we all felt happy every after.
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