EDIT #1: Domenico Dolce & Stefano gabbana & Shannon Click & Eva Herzigova shot by Steven Klein. Remember Klein's Tom Ford W edit with the plastic showroom dummies that was supposed to be 'sexy/bizarre' but was just ridiculous & dumb? Remember Klein's big W edit with Brad Pitt & Angie Jolie that was supposed to be risque & deep but actually just took 2 of the most famous, good-looking actors in the world and set them in a dark & senseless edit where the furniture & decor was the best thing about it? Well at last Klein has shot a major W edit that recalls his innovative & sexually-charged scenarios that made him famous in the 90s. This shoot, "Dolce & Vita" is perhaps the best-realized version of D&G's mindset & aesthetic ever captured in a fashion magazine. And as opposed to the silly Ford shoot and the drab Brad/Angel edit, this edit packs a serious sexual wallop including overt homo-erotic images & true surrealist mystery, or even spiritual iconoclasm. And D&G themselves are in every picture here, thoroughly legit as models or actors in these very eye-popping and actually sexy setpieces. It's a quite a contrast to the white-washed supposed 'lifestyle' D&G pieces in US Vogue where you see their sumptuous southern Italian getaway, but there's not even a hint in the text of the debauched & orgiastic parties you just know they are hosting. [the Bazaar Batman cartoon stuff was cute but more juvenile than anything dangerous or sensuous.] Along with excellent turns by shannon & eva, there are 3 male models used here, each handsome & muscular, but the peroxide blonde one is the star of most of the set pieces. Im not much of a fan of any male models but these 3 are great & actually function as much as actors as models; also stefano, particularly, is hotter here than Ive ever seen him- hes really buff & in shape & hes the best male model of all. I guess I'll just briefly describe each photo as I interpret it - others are going to have their versions of the storyline here, but merely my surface version will be enough to explain how hot and suggestive each of these pics is:
* stefano in tiny D&G black briefs with his legs open on the bed and wearing womens high heeled shoes! this comes off as both humourous & sexy, not an easy balance!
* domenico is nude in a chair sitting by a bed with muscular peroxide blonde male model in white briefs & a sgt pepper military jacket
* peroxide male in a black suit squeezes shannon's bare t*t - shes in nude panties & her body is awesome. while eva is on her knees kissing stefano's chest as he reclines on the bed.
* on the beach in portofino, model's high heel stabs into domenico's chest as he lays on the beach . looks more like eva's ED leg to me
* bare *** shannon [again such a hot body!] squeezes eva's bare t*t as eva rubs shann's bare ***. domenico massages crotch of peroxide model in black suit. [this is a lot more dramatic & also a lot more real/sex than anything in the Ford or Jolie edits & that is an understatement. theres a dramatic boudoir lighting to many of these pics that is much better stage-craft than the jolie edit - that shoot was too dark & the pics even seemed blurry at times.
* peroxide male stradles shann [nude except for panty] on the bed while nude eva watches & besuited domenico watches too. I LOVE the black suits, white shirts & black ties on the men in this edit- its a standard D&G unifiorm but somehow contrasts brilliantly with all the pink flesh & theres a LOT of flesh here !!!
* D&G bare chested in hot white jeans seem to be binding shann, in a hottie black corset, with black rope or sonmething. this may be an allusion to some movie or something but anyway its really HOT & really kinky - sure looks like 2 on 1 s&m to me ! i think submissive shann is being tied up it looks very naughty.
* super buff stefano in tiny black bikini flexes on the beach with 2 muscleboys admiring in the distance. this is WAYYY more homo-erotic than the ford edit ever got & I am loving the idea of the squares at conde nast getting a look at what the kooky reprobate bad boys & girls at fairchild cooked up for them in 2007 !
* some type of religious/cinematic scene, maybe a funeral? a Pope Benedict character [very close approximation in clothes face & gesture] seems to either be conducting a blessing or forgiveness for dolce who wears black jacket tie & white jeans. DD's gesture looks like seeking forgiveness. peroxide male is bareass at left edge. eva [?] in mournful black with funeary shroud. stefano sits on the right in white with cel phone ! this also looks like a famous renaisance painting, or film scene,,,anyway its mysterious iconoclastic cinematic & effectrively spooky- again klein tried to go much deeper with this edit than he usually does & it totally succeeds- these are much more evocative & surreal arty images than one normally sees in a fashion mag- almost like a film scene or even archetypal images from a painting in the history of art. very fellini- bergman- esque too. is it a funeral? or domenico seeks forgiveness but the pope says there's nothing he can do ??
* 2 male models, super buff , and shannon , all three totally nude but covering their privates with their hands, and stefano in black suit & tie & hotty glasses. did i mention that shann's body is amazingly hot in this edit? her face might be made up like a doll like / death mask [hello lisa cant] but her body is banging !!
Hard to place specific meanings on this edit but this final image appears to be some type of an after life or a rebirth or new beginning for stefano with born-again type nudes of shann & 2 males.
ANYWAY you get the idea W has once again pushed the boundries. of fashion & art photography in a mass market us magazine. klein has delivered his best shoot ive seen since his vogue robot/conservatory garden stuff like 4 years ago. when shannon click debuted like 3 years ago I liked her but then she disappeared? well with richard kern's awesome click edit in dec/jan nylon & now this being even better,, shannon is suddenly back in the fight as a major us/world model for 2007. she is wayyy hot here & even eva, who I really thought Was dead, is used brilliantly here. the male models are 3 of the best ive seen in years [i usually hate male models] and stefano is a better male nodel than they are. a brilliant depiction of the glamorous dangerous sexy and perverse D&G aesthetic- best ive ever seen in any magazine. makes last years us vogue D&G portofino travelogue look like pathetic, fake kid's stuff by comparison great great edit, I love it rating 10 of 10 .
hot damn!
a little too reminiscent of the ads 
i cant tell if thats shannan or eva
