“T”“His collection has a rebellious attitude and a kind heart,” Donatella Versace said before Friday’s show, made entirely of marble, white and gold, at Versace’s headquarters in Milan. “You may be a little outlandish sometimes, but be kind on the inside, okay?” Be a good person,” she implored, sitting on a white leather sofa.
The Milan Fashion Week shows certainly screamed “rebel.” It was punk and high-voltage, and some of the models wore their hair as if they were carrying Van de Graaff generators. And so was Versace.
At its core is tailoring, modernized and, of course, sexy given the context. Particular attention was paid to the formidable shoulder “power blazer,” a silhouette Versace favors in her own wardrobe, accessorized with her signature charms and door-high platform. I did.
“I think the Power Jacket is very empowering for women, men, everyone,” Versace said in the preview. Taking Prince as an example, this is what Versace did for this collection, and a photo of her in a red suit, with slim legs and raised shoulders, was pinned to her mood board. . The two are friends and “my friendship with him is really close to my heart,” she said. He then asked her to design a suit that would fit her petite frame.
She said he was “deep, he went very deep.” To be a fly on the wall, as she had been several times when she visited him in Paisley Park. “It was just me and him. [in an] It’s a huge place with lots of great things inside. ”
But rather than starting with Prince’s Minneapolis pad, the set was inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The black carpet is so plush it’s a tripping hazard, the white cubic stools circle like teeth, and the white walls tremble with the volume of the music, as if the audience were sitting in the mouth of a giant Versace beast. It seemed like that.
What the beast spit out was a fiery black dress with a slit several centimeters above her hipbones. Red leather gloves, red leather bag, red leather coat. Ribbed black leather bodycon style skirt and dress. malt, malt sexy bustier dress. “Slice” heels with leopard print and super pointy toes. According to Versace, the lengths are intentionally dichotomized, “at the extremes, reaching the floor, and at the shortest, there is nothing in the middle.”
As someone who can command the power of celebrity in ways few others could dream of, the catwalks have highlighted high-profile names like Versace’s occasional chopper – Last season, for example, she cast Claudia Schiffer on Serious Flex.
Also in the front row were Versace favorites Gigi Hadid and Anne Hathaway.But given report Last year it became clear that the Versace brand, despite its huge reputation, was losing market share, and perhaps will need a little more flexibility in the future.
