Politically incorrect Dolce and Gabbana stay unrepentant as they target world’s ultra rich
Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana spark rage on social media – and douse the flames with breathtaking, ever more luxurious fashions
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana unspool politically incorrect opinions with little more than a shrug.
They evoke rage and fury on social media. Then they douse the flames with some of the most breathtaking fashion imaginable.
At a time when fast and disposable has become the norm, these designers have opted to go ever more luxurious with fashion meticulously made by hand.
[Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s] garments delight China’s new generation of moguls and feed a hunger among America’s corporate titans, who put fashion in the same category as fine art, rare wines and trophy real estate
And when they brought their glamorous ode to the “American Dream” to this melting-pot city, it was a version accessible to about 1 per cent of the one-percenters.
In other words, they are the perfect designers for this cultural moment, with all of its fractured politics and infuriating contradictions. Go ahead. Tsk-tsk them. They don’t really care.
At the Metropolitan Opera House last month, golden chairs awaited 350 coddled clients.
Pink and lilac roses were tucked into the thick grey branches curled around the brass handrails of the grand staircase.
The guests walked a golden carpet in clothes of fairy-tale opulence (those were gold and diamond buttons, not brass and diamante) and sipped Cristal Champagne.
They relaxed into a level of consumer luxury that makes the good life look like little more than a struggle to survive.
Awaiting the start of the Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda Show – a spectacle of sable, mink and more diamonds – they were living the best life. Or at least the fashion world’s version of it.