For many designers, having a seven-time Grammy winner carry out at their present is an unattainable dream. For Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, nevertheless, enlisting Christina Aguilera to present a live performance, full with billowing banners and a posse of male dancers in pink satin fits and diamanté chokers twirling feathered followers by the seashore, isn’t even a part of the primary occasion. Aguilera belted out her immediately recognizable hits at Dolce & Gabbana’s welcome dinner for his or her Alta Moda extravaganza, which highlights creations made by hand with the utmost diploma of Italian high quality and know-how. The occasion, which spans a number of days each summer time, has turn into a requisite cease for a couple of hundred of the designers’ closest mates and purchasers.
Christina Aguilera acting at Dolce & Gabbana’s Alta Moda present.
{Photograph} by Thomas Falcone Courtesy of Dolce & Gabbana
This time round, the festivities came about close to Cagliari, in Sardinia, the place most of the company arrived on their non-public yachts. The night after Aguilera’s efficiency, everybody converged for the excessive jewellery presentation, which included filigreed bracelets and necklaces adorned with extraordinary stones worthy of an 18th-century principessa—or a Twenty first-century tycoon-essa. Essentially the most jaw-dropping items, nevertheless, featured as their centerpieces, alongside candy-size treasured and semi-precious stones, exquisitely detailed hearts and rosettes made out of bread. Sure, you learn that proper: the designers varnished and stabilized minute bread confections sculpted and baked utilizing native methods, after which integrated them into mouthwatering baubles.
A rosette necklace accented with a sculpted bread coronary heart.
{Photograph} by DSL Studio
Subsequent up was the primary occasion—the ladies’s Alta Moda. The backdrop was the ruins of the traditional metropolis of Nora, which dates again to the eighth century BC and straddles a rocky bay. The gathering, proven completely with flat footwear, was centered round flowing black attire, many intricately pleated, adorned with golden corsets, armor-like vests, large necklaces, and imposing earrings that skimmed the clavicle. The fashions walked round an association of geometric, mirror-like sculptures by the California artist Phillip Okay. Smith III, who is thought for his large-scale installations; the reflections of the garments at sundown created a mesmerizing kaleidoscopic impact. Different standouts included attractive white blouses with ballooned sleeves; sheer attire in sorbet colours; and a slinky silver robe that resembled a protracted vial of mercury. The memorable finale was a coat of many, many colours, impressed by conventional Sardinian costumes, and made utilizing artisanal strategies initially meant for carpet-weaving. It was not stunning that the viewers gave the designers a standing ovation.
Seems from the gathering.
A have a look at the setup on the Alta Moda present, created by California artist Phillip Okay. Smith III.
{Photograph} by Melania Dalle Grave, Piercarlo Quecchia at DSL Studio
“The methods for this assortment are very difficult, however the outcomes are easy,” mentioned Domenico Dolce earlier than the present. “What we’ll keep in mind most about Sardinia is the starkness of the bodily surroundings, juxtaposed with the richness of the historic means of dressing on the island.” Everybody who was there may be sure to recollect it, too.
