Dolce & Gabbana's Couture Project

[KKnardi]

There's some really frivolous outfits shown here but overall I like the optimism and glamour of the event! Soooh! ITALIANA

 

[rip_ian curtis]

They and Armani are the same nowadays: irrelevant, VERY stuck and in terms of style and image, totally opposite to what initially made their name.

 

[pen6693]

I was watching the SS2006 show, my favorite next to SS 2007, and this isn't that like far off from what they were making then. The only big difference is that they don't play dance music. This isn't bad, I genuinely like it.

 

[fashionista-ta]

My eyes started to hurt, I had to stop looking

 

[Lola701]

It's very Dolce & Gabbana even if i hate their gimmicks. I don't find anything fun about their gimmicks.
This is not different from what they did in the late 90's or 10 years ago.

Karl said that he doesn't want to do "clients" because it will influence his work and then, he will propose what they wants instead of what he wants as a fashion designer.

D&G are like Elie Saab. Their business is mainly clothes. They are doing altered versions of what they are doing everytime. The clients will be happy and above all, they had the opportunity to live an experience.

Even if i've liked some of their Alta Moda collections (La Scala one was good), i'm not excited by this "backward" aesthetic. The D&G seems to be stuck in the 50's.
I don't find anything modern about this even if they did ballgowns 10 years ago.

 

[Sunnyinlondon]

Seeing it in movement doesn't make it any better, I'm afraid.


https://youtu.be/jqkqc2-iteQ


https://youtu.be/NXKMBPO_H8c


https://youtu.be/V0uOhLwd0Ys

 

[vetements]

i dont see why the hate here, its in your face opulence but can also border on vulgarity, maybe not as sophisticated as most people"s image of "Parisian" fashion, i rather have this than pretentious vetements anytime.

taking out the gold-anything pieces, there is still a lot of love here, the mens are also downright stashing money in your face glamour but thats fine, there is space for everything in fashion.

And like Fashionistata said, their clothes are well made Italian

 

[Fashion_Girl22]

Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda S/S 2017 Milan

Bravissimo! Dolce & Gabbana Find Inspiration for Their Spring 2017 Alta Moda Show in the Opera

by Sarah Mower

This time last year Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana took the stage of La Scala in Milan for their Alta Moda couture show. This time, they took some of the world’s big couture spenders backstage, or rather, on a drive to the opera’s vast, vastf hangar-sized factory in the arty-industrial area of Milan, where the scenery, furniture, costumes, wigs, head-pieces, and makeup are made for productions by an army of specialists. “This place is very magical,” Dolce announced. “We were fascinated when we came here a year ago. We both go to the opera–we’re Italian, drama is in our blood!”

And so, the Spring haute couture collection was an epic fashion production, populated by a hundred imaginary characters, who descended a fake garden staircase built for the purpose. The collection, said Gabbana, was the result of their immersion in the archives, looking through decades of historic costumes from every conceivable opera: Madama Butterfly, Falstaff, La Traviata, La Bohéme, The Magic Flute, Lucia di Lammermoor, and more. “Oh, we came out with our heads spinning!” groaned Gabbana. They didn’t know where to begin with the stories, he said, so after a little pause to think, they both just decided to throw it all in.

After all, Dolce & Gabbana haute couture, like the opera, is no place for holding back on opulence. The more gold, the more sequins, the more fantasy, the more their paying audience—women and men, whole families, indeed—love it. They travel from all corners of the world to take part in the through-the-gilded-looking-glass weekends of themed parties and shows the designers lay on twice a year. And there’s not a towering head-dress, a six-foot wide crinoline, or a pair of glittering hot pants the brand’s friends are shy of ordering for these occasions—and that’s just the mothers.

But now the designers have dynastic designs on a multi-generational cross-section of the world’s super-spenders. “We wanted to look at the daughters of the customers,” said Gabbana. “Who is the next couture client?” They’ve had plenty of young kids in and out of the house since they started inviting millennials to sit front row at their ready-to-wear and men’s shows, and, more recently, to walk in them.

Part of this performance, then, was angled at casualizing couture, styling it out with hand-painted jeans by a New York graffiti artist, ermine sweatshirts, and oversize puffas with double-layered sable collars. For girls who balk at going too frilly, there were men’s suits, borrowed directly from the Dolce & Gabbana Alta Sartoria bespoke collection. Truth told, there was nothing that strayed out of the parameters Dolce & Gabbana set for themselves years ago, when Gisele Bündchen sensationally strolled the boards for them in bejeweled hipster jeans circa 2000. Still, that would come as news to a millennial, who was just being born at that time.

It’s gorgeous, refreshed familiarity that works every time for Dolce & Gabbana, for women of whatever age. Reaching teens and twentysomethings who don’t have access to an inheritance might seem a bit more unrealistic in this day and age. But to look closely at this show, beyond the clothes and the incredible costly techniques, the democratic takeaway was there, readable on every face in the form of the matte berry-colored lipstick worn by all the models. As every millennial knows, the status designer lipstick is all a girl really needs, besides her smartphone.

vogue


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[Fashion_Girl22]

continued...


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[Fashion_Girl22]

(runway footage at 8:43)

 

[AnaD]

This is this season's collection, right?

 

[Cute]

Yes, it is.
Missing one look btw:

vogue

 

[AnaD]

They just had their new Alta Moda, Alta Sartoria shows. Has anyone seen more than the Instagram snapshots?

 

[Deleted member 1957]

They just had their new Alta Moda, Alta Sartoria shows. Has anyone seen more than the Instagram snapshots?

More here

http://www.vogue.com/article/dolce-and-gabanna-alta-moda-palermo

pic vogue

 

[AnaD]

Thank you!

 

[billiejbob]

While I have no doubt that the craftsmanship of the clothing is amazing, the actual style and creativity of this collection shows that Dolce and Gabbana are stuck in their little Italian/Sicilian dream with no signs of escaping.

What a unoriginal collection from them...
They need to do something radical to freshen up the brand and move away from this now sterile theme.

 

[lavender]

D&G is not really an "artistic" fashion brand, more like a "let's rake in as much money as possible" brand.

 

[fashionista-ta]

My eyes hurt after looking at that very small picture.

Does this do well in Russia?

 

[AnaD]

I don't know about Russia, but they do sell in the Saudi states, Latin America and the Caribbean. Also in Asia, when I was in Seoul earlier this year much of the fashion crowd had D&G on, not just the rtw, I saw couture jackets and dresses.

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ Hope you were wearings shades at the time