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This year The Forge played host to Dolce and Gabbana’s 2005 spring collection preview. Surrounded by candle lit dinning tables and black satin draped walls, The Forge provided a unique backdrop for this season’s showcase.
Models flaunted the signature Dolce & Gabbana staples: sexy, provocative and playful pieces heightened by the whimsical elements of feathers, leopard prints and snake skins. Africa’s Serengeti and South Beach’s sultry sizzle collided in an unusual but, sophisticated collection.
“Dolce & Gabbana aren’t subtle,” says Andrew Bolton, associate curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. “They design blatant statements. Yet they also have a huge sense of irony and whimsy.”
One such example of Dolce and Gabbana’s blatant statements came in the form a flowing silk leopard dress, with a plunging neckline that stops just after the navel.
British fashion writer Lisa Armstrong describes that, “many of the fluttery as a breeze little chiffon nothings come with awesome internal structural engineering. If you wanted, you could see it all as an apt reading of current femininity.”
Many of this season’s designers have infused elements of the classic and glamorous woman of the 1940’s into their lines; and although Dolce and Gabbana has also included this trademark sensuality, they make reference to a different kind of 1940’s woman, the femme fatale.
A long animal print chiffon dress accentuated with a tall overflowing feather collar and sleeves is just one eye popping creation that embodies the smoking, black and white print of the clever and erotic seductress of yesteryear.
South Beach interior designer Katrina Witt comments, “I love how Dolce and Gabbana has taken environmental elements and created a trademark landscape of another kind, the ever changing woman.”
A python button up dress with matching boots and handbag played on the theme of the internal conflict within us all, the caged animal versus the civilized world.
“I always think it’s rather tongue in cheek, the idea of us humans wearing animal prints,” comments onlooker Nina Smith. “I mean, aren’t humans just walking, talking animals trapped within the social morays of our constructed civilization?”
With a flair for the dramatic, Dolce and Gabbana has created a spring collection comprised of seductive femininity and offers an interesting perspective on the carnal elements that create a woman.
To preview the entire collection please visit www.dolcegabbana.it
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