Dolce & Gabbana Spring/summer 2005: Milan

[Mr-Dale]

Originally posted by softgrey@Oct 3 2004, 07:07 PM


my biggest objection...which didn't seem to bother anyone else....is the horrible use of lace...on jeans.. with python...etc...the lace really makes me cringe...and it was beautiful lace...i just really couldn't stomach the way it was used....

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I agree, I hated all the jeans in the show anyway...

 

[LibertyRose]

Dolce & Gabbana laced-up everything because their use of lace on the FW04 collection was a critical hit. Of course, it was done in a much more tasteful way:

 

[oceanharlot]

*sigh*

I like parts of it... but when I look at the entire collection... its too much aging glam rocker and not enough classicism to make that rocker look really pop off.

If you paint your entire house red, it becomes a neutral. But put one red couch in a tan room and wow have you made a statement.

 

[kimair]

just scrolled through everything, and it was a bit too much of everything...too much lace, too much python, too much platform.

this look is insane:

and the jeans with lace and snakeskin...ugh!

there were some great pieces, but I agree with everyone else, it will have to be pulled apart and styled differently.

what i did LOVE about the show was the range of models, from Cintia and Nataliya to Natasa V, Sylvia, Carmen, etc. A great mix of new and old (although I wanted to see Jaunel).

 

[Atelier]

Look 34, the dress on Cintia, is perfect!

 

[Plumour]

Originally posted by softgrey@Oct 3 2004, 12:00 PM
i'd like to see angelina jolie rock this dress...

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couldn't agree more

 

[Plumour]

not a fan of Dolce & Gabbana as a whole, but I always seem to LOVE some pieces from each of their collections.
I feel that this collection is even more over the place and busier than some typical D&G collections
but part of the clothes are pretty and wearble as always (just that I'd mix them differently )

 

[softgrey]

Originally posted by Plumour@Oct 3 2004, 05:03 PM
couldn't agree more

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[tiffany]

well, I love the selection of models they used and the details in a lot of the clothing
Individually a lot of the peices seem like they would work well, but it seems a bit much in this presentation - although fun to watch.
I actually think that since their presentation of their fw04 collection was much more subtle, this collection seemed even more over the top than it actually is but that's just me

 

[AlexN]

Originally posted by Mr-Dale@Oct 3 2004, 11:54 AM

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This is my favorite.

 

[kimair]

review from WWD:

Fashion — it all started back in Eden with an acquisitive woman and the lure of the snake. Now, all these millennia later, what’s so different? Not much, according to Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, who on Friday showed a terrific Dolce & Gabbana collection souped up with the help of that age-old enticing serpentine charmer.

Like others in Milan this season, the designers took their inspiration from Africa, while referencing late Seventies-era photographs by Irving Penn and, with unintentional poignancy, Richard Avedon. Along the way, they went ape over snake, working it the way Gap works khaki. That is to say, they made it the core of their collection, so much so that it’s unlikely any true Dolce girl will greet the spring sans at least a pinch of python. Certainly she’ll have plenty from which to choose, from the high-heat corset dress in which Naomi Campbell opened the show, to more versatile coats and skirts worked at least partially in snake, to wild new versions of the ornamented jeans the designers love, to a bounty of spectacular bags and shoes. And heavy-handed though it sounds, Dolce and Gabbana made it all utterly chic.

Chic, of course, in that high-heat manner intrinsic to everything these designers do. “Sexissimo!” Gabbana proclaimed the dominant look, while a T-shirt boasted, “Luxe is More.” And so it was — in both cases, as the pair reveled in lace, croc, denim, feathers, tweeds, animal prints and the novelty du jour, raffia, all combined to provocative effect.

Evening featured a dazzlingly diverse brigade from goddess gowns to glitter hearts a-go-go. And for all the sex, embellishment and material exotica, the collection delivered a certain polish, even refinement, while it radiated heat. Now that’s a trip worth taking.

terrific collection?? I don't think I would use those words to describe this...

 

[mikeijames]

Originally posted by kimair@Oct 4 2004, 12:27 PM
review from WWD:
terrific collection?? I don't think I would use those words to describe this...

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Main Entry: ter·rif·ic
Pronunciation: t&-'ri-fik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin terrificus, from terrEre to frighten
1 a : very bad : FRIGHTFUL b : exciting or fit to excite fear or awe

 

[Lena]

Cathy says in NYT

... The designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana put on their best show in years, an unabashed spree of python and python prints and python patches worked cleverly on jeans and shown (for a nice change) with flats. But not only were there python purses placed on each guest's seat, as gifts, there was also a bag for virtually every runway outfit — and in all sizes, from baby bear to papa bear.

With clothes becoming more and more costly — someone has to catch that python, treat it with chemicals (at unimagined costs to a country's environment) and turn it into a bustier dress for Naomi Campbell — and with the Asian market growing, accessories are an obvious way to snare consumers while fattening the bottom line. As Ms. Friedman suggested, there is usually a banal motive behind the latest pretty trend. It was no accident this season that so many designers spiced up their collections with Chinese red, peacock blue and marigold.

 

[mikeijames]

...their best show in years....

come on, cathy, give me a break...last season far excelled this season although, it was a very strong collection.

 

[Lena]

Originally posted by mikeijames@Oct 4 2004, 09:30 PM
come on, cathy, give me a break...last season far excelled this season although, it was a very strong collection.

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i'm with you mikeijames

 

[faust]

Originally posted by mikeijames@Oct 4 2004, 01:08 PM
Main Entry: ter·rif·ic
Pronunciation: t&-'ri-fik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin terrificus, from terrEre to frighten
1 a : very bad : FRIGHTFUL b : exciting or fit to excite fear or awe

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I guess they meant b, but it's certainly a.

And Cathy Horyn should really stop writing. I think I'll call NY Times and offer my services.

 

[Plumour]

Originally posted by mikeijames@Oct 4 2004, 03:30 PM
come on, cathy, give me a break...last season far excelled this season although, it was a very strong collection.

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absolutely!

 

[Erin]

the only good thing about this collection is the makeup

 

[Strikingly Chloe]

D&G is so wacky sometimes but I do love that they do whatever they want and don't care what the hell anyone thinks.

 

[Tinetush]

Originally posted by Plumour@Oct 3 2004, 06:07 PM
not a fan of Dolce & Gabbana as a whole, but I always seem to LOVE some pieces from each of their collections.
I feel that this collection is even more over the place and busier than some typical D&G collections
but part of the clothes are pretty and wearble as always (just that I'd mix them differently )

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Agree!