Dolce & Gabbana recalls its classics at MFW
In partnership with Kim Kardashian, Dolce & Gabbana re-trails its archival designs and marks yet another catwalk at Milan Fashion Week
Almost on the verge of 40 years on the road (rounding off in 2025), Dolce & Gabbana has been committed to re-treading the slopes of memories and its classics. At the last show, they joined hands with Kim Kardashian for a collection made up of a series of archival reissues — which is now starting to hit stores. Today, with BFF Kim blessing again, now in the front row, Domenico and Dolce review a more subtle element of their eredità: the attachment to a very particular sensuality, which can sometimes be ridiculed (they are Latinos , after all), in many others, self-absorbed . “A collection that celebrates the authentic feminine, based on her internal experiences”, they define. For that, they leave aside much of the Italian flashy to look at a boudoir à Dolce. If it's transparency that fashion has been asking for, that's what they deliver: in a mix of layers of lace, tulle and silk over lacy lingerie, sometimes combined with metal bras and bodices. Draping in ultra-golden jersey gives way to whole looks in shiny crystals, which is how the show ends. However, an ideal of sensuality can have several parameters: alongside so much transparency, what stands out is when the current DG ragazza are completely covered in powerful tailoring, coming (and updated) directly from the 1970s/80s, when the shoulders powerful ones dictated the personality of the cats that carried them. The reissues also continue: like KK's curation, pieces carry the years of origin in clever tags, like in the slit pencil skirt straight from 1995 or the executive's twin set from 1991.