ITALY: DONATELLA VERSACE OPENS HER SHOW WITH A MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

Record ID: 648876

  • Title: ITALY: DONATELLA VERSACE OPENS HER SHOW WITH A MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
  • Date: 29th September 2001
  • Summary: (W8) MILAN, ITALY (SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) VERSACE SHOW: 1. VARIOUS OF MODELS ON CATWALK FOR VERSACE SHOW 1.33 2. SLV MODEL WITH DONATELLA VERSACE 1.39 GUCCI SHOW: 3. VARIOUS OF MODELS ON CATWALK FOR GUCCI SHOW 3.52 4. SLV TOM FORD 4.39 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th October 2001 13:00
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  • Location: MILAN. ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVAAXVMFX3ERO54ND1ISNVQE73WM
  • Story Text: Donatella Versace opened her show with a message of
    condolence to the American people. On the catwalk she returned
    to the 1980s for her Versus line, squeezing models into
    skintight jeans in white and grey scrawls or draping them in
    drawstring dresses in pink and grey graffiti patterns.

    Gucci lined up a looser look for next spring, turning its
    back on close-cropped jackets and suits in favour of low-slung
    cotton twill trousers and buckle-up coats.



    Donatella Versace opened her show with a message to the
    American people in which she highlighted their bravery. But
    she soon returned to more familiar ground - the catwalk. From
    a light grey knee-length skirt suit with big swirling white
    and pink commas to tight white jacquard print or lace-effect
    jeans, Versus will dress the daring girl for
    work and play.

    But there was also a wealth of clothes the more
    conservative woman can choose, like a white jacket with deep
    grey flowers and leaves stenciled on it.

    The same material was cut into a knee-length skirt given a
    twist by drawing the waist into a ring at the back, just below
    hip level.

    For the warm summers evening, there were lacy strapless
    minidresses, ruffled over a heavy belt at the waist and with
    pointy, elfin hemlines.

    Pink and grey came back in a striped halter-neck tennis
    dress or in a little drawstring back held together with a huge
    silver ring.

    Gucci house designer Tom Ford almost managed to leave
    behind the house trademark black, more often dressing his
    springtime girl in stone and olive green, using soft suede and
    shimmery satin to soften the silhouette.

    The relaxed look drew on city-hip, low-crotch trousers but
    neatened them up by wrapping them into deep pleats at the
    front, finished off with a little side buckle.

    Ford also added a good dose of elegance to the current
    catwalk style of asymmetrical skirts, keeping triangular
    zig-zags smaller and neater than some of the thigh-skimming,
    ankle-kissing creations on display elsewhere.

    For the cooler days of spring there was a heavy black
    suede coat which hung baggily off the shoulders to the knee,
    clipped into shape with heavy buckles which stayed on the
    stylish side of military.

    There was also a nod to the army look in curved panels
    sewn into trousers. But rather than reinforcing the material,
    they were made of soft satin, reflecting light between the
    legs.

    A floor-length evening gown was made in jet black satin
    with an elongated flower cut out along the right leg while
    fine black jersey tops made separates which still match those
    years-old black trousers.


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