ITALY: DOLCE AND GABBANA AND GUCCI PARADE THEIR STYLES ON THE MILAN CATWALKS

Record ID: 863330

  • Title: ITALY: DOLCE AND GABBANA AND GUCCI PARADE THEIR STYLES ON THE MILAN CATWALKS
  • Date: 23rd February 2005
  • Summary: (L!1) MILAN, ITALY (FEBRUARY 23, 2005) (REUTERS) VARIOUS HIGHLIGHTS OF DOLCE AND GABBANA FASHION SHOW (15 SHOTS) DOMENICO DOLCE AND STEFANO GABBANA GREETING AUDIENCE VARIOUS OF GUCCI FASHION SHOW (19 SHOTS) DESIGNER ALESSANDRA FACCHINETTI GREETING AUDIENCE
  • Embargoed: 10th March 2005 12:00
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  • Location: MILAN, ITALY
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  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Arts
  • Reuters ID: LVACK4XZQDWPDULM882CFWQ4KVET
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  • Story Text: Dolce and Gabbana and Gucci parade their latest styles on the Milan catwalks.
    Short, chiffon baby-doll D&G dresses just skimmed below the bottom but could easily morph into flowery empire-line tops by the time they make it to the shop rails.
    The D&G girl typically loves to dress up and this season raided an ancient wardrobe for a burgundy lace and velvet high-necked dress and then split it right up the thigh or picked up a regency-style floor-length purple gown to wear with jeans.
    Shrunken granny cardigans sat cockily over ballerina skirts of gauze that showed models gold underwear beneath while D&Gs trademark tight jeans were paired with Elizabethan long-cuffed white shirts and neat black velvet jackets.
    Gucci took a step away from drainpipe trousers and clingtight skirts last season when Alessandra Facchinetti took over from star designer Tom Ford. This time, they gave way to super-slim satin pencil trousers which were just that bit more flattering to curves, while skirts were cut straight to the knee with a stretchy slit up the back.
    One of the biggest changes was the move from black on black with black decoration to a subtler palette of midnight blue, steely grey and bright splashes of teal blue and purple.
    Gucci's iconic handbags were cut in big boxes, made of thick crocodile and snake skin that glinted under the catwalk lights.
    Most outfits were paired with knee-high boots made of luscious leathers with a midnight blue crocodile skin lip arching out of the top.
    For the cold days, Gucci provided every shape and form from neat velvet tops to fur puffs to hefty jackets that wrapped wide across the shoulders then slimmed down to a narrow hip-band and into a short, straight crocodile band at the bottom.
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