Show Report
Dolly Jones
23/09/2010
FLOWERS surrounded the catwalk and the clothes of the girls in the D&G show this afternoon – if Alberta Ferretti and Fendi have suggested a return to the good life, the D&G team couldn’t agree more.
With Hurts telling us from the speakers that we should “never give up, it’s such a wonderful life”, we saw girls in baggy hessian shorts under crossover backed tops bearing the peonies and hydrangeas that they were walking past. Checked handkerchiefs in their hair were less field worker and more happy hippy – but the sunflower seeds that had been sent to us by way of an invite suggests that D&G wouldn’t disapprove if we did decide to get our hands dirty next summer.
There were wide legged clam diggers and pretty midriff-revealing peasant tops, while huge checked bags in bright yellow and red had a cartoonish appeal - and will fit in all your gardening tools obviously, and cork platformed boots (worn with thick woolly socks) and wedged heels were just as much fun.
Skirts were long and full and only an occasional touch of naughtiness appeared by way of shiny red leather bloomers and floppy silk dungarees that looked best with nothing underneath them. Sweet tailored shorts came under matching floral jackets and apron fronted mini dresses had a whimsical appeal, before a lovely lace story took over with dresses falling in tiers of cream, peach and pink and tops split down the back and belted over matching shorts.
You can always depend on D&G for a great finale and today’s was an army of floral lace dresses, frilled and flounced around the shoulders and hemlines. “Wouldn’t our mothers be proud of us in those,” said one fashion editor. They recalled the days of Laura Ashley’s floral mania in the Eighties – but they were much nicer, you couldn’t help but want one.
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And music was just perfect 
