Dolce Gabbana Spring/Summer 2016: All Loved Up

Models Take Selfies On The Catwalk At Dolce & Gabbana

GettyImages-490265778

by Susannah Frankel |
Published on

'Italia is Love' was the message at the Dolce Gabbana show in Milan this afternoon. The words 'love', 'famiglia', 'capri', 'domenico' and more were printed across the awning of the Italian cafe backdrop.

Over the past three decades, these two Italian designers have honed a hot, Southern Italian aesthetic to perfection. And this season it looked as good as ever. In jewelled tiaras, ceramic Sicilian lemon earrings, pointed-toed slingbacks and dangling principally Fifties-inspired bags, models stepped out in signature opera coats, trapeze-line shifts, deckchair striped sundresses... They looked as pretty as princesses.

If the silhouettes were familiar, the workmanship is increasingly ornate and, this time in particular, rainbow-coloured. Parasols, beach balls, sun loungers, daisies and poppies (the flower of the forthcoming season) were appliqued and embroidered onto garments to ever more beautiful effect.

Models took selfies during the show [Instagram]
Models took selfies during the show [Instagram]

Dolce Gabbana are by now among the great names in Italian fashion but for all their stature there is a lightness of touch not to mention unprecedented wit and warmth to their work.

At the end of the show, the designers, who have long plundered their homeland for inspiration, put every girl into an identically cut silk tunic, each stamped with the names and landmarks of the Italian cities they love.

Gallery

Dolce SS16

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (1)1 of 8

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (1)

Dolce & Gabbana

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (4)2 of 8

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (4)

Dolce & Gabbana

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (7)3 of 8

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (7)

Dolce & Gabbana

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (8)4 of 8

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (8)

Dolce & Gabbana

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (12)5 of 8

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (12)

Dolce & Gabbana

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (14)6 of 8

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (14)

Dolce & Gabbana

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (15)7 of 8

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (15)

Dolce & Gabbana

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (16)8 of 8

DOLCE&GABBANA WOMAN SUMMER 16 (16)

Dolce & Gabbana

Just so you know, we may receive a commission or other compensation from the links on this website - read why you should trust us