Dolce & Gabbana Celebrate Sophia Loren and Naples of Alta Moda
Dolce & Gabbana is a luxury Italian fashion house founded in 1985 in Legnano by Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.
Last year designers had announced new face of their campagn and celebrated her Birthday of 80th years from an dearest and beautiful icon of all times – Sophia Loren.
Her beauty took place in a street in the Quartieri Spagnoli, right in the middle of old Naples tonight. Effectively, that’s what Dolce & Gabbana arranged for Italy’s great movie diva of divas, a ceremony which backgrounded its Alta Moda collection, both literally and symbolically.
“This is my place, my land, it is not just about the clothes,” said to spurces Domenico Dolce, backstage before the show if you can call the cloisters of a baroque church “backstage.”
Inspired by Sophia, by Naples, and tradition. She grew up not far from here, and many of her movies were set here. There’s one she was in called Miseria e Nobiltà.
Naples is a tourist place, and still like this today, very poor on one hand, but with this incredible Baroque architecture, the Spanish influence on the other site, authentic little shops, family businesses, happy life.
DG collection embroidered rich colors of deed painted needle-pointed and gilded clothes swung a corseted swimsuit with a white satin sash, the words Miss Eleganza sewn in gold beads. It was a reminder that Sophia Loren’s first step to fame was competing in a local beauty contest, the break that took a girl from impoverished postwar circumstances to becoming the first Italian performer to win an acting Oscar.
Now 81 years old, sparkling in rose-patterned sequins, and still in charge of an impressive plunging décolletage, Loren made her way to be seated on a gilded velvet throne on a grandstand built on one of Naples’s oldest thoroughfares. Above, it was failytale moment that Neapolitan’s were all hung out from apartment windows and lined every available rooftop to cheer, applaud, and call her name.
Dolce & Gabbana really do go to town with their Alta Moda literally elaborately decorated, feminine clothes, it was idea of the locals who had a better insight into all the homages to Loren’s movie costumes and references to high Catholicism, folk art, and food.
Each look was garlanded with extraordinary collaged headresses involving flowers, satin bows hearts and at one point, a cake. Jewelry made huge impact that balconette necklines and curvy pencil skirts; sexy dresses with swishing hems reminiscent of Loren’s poor-girl in 40s roles, incredibly fitted black suits and coats made for going to mass, worn over sensual satin slips.
Highi fashion end a great show for classic Dolce & Gabbana and Maradona Sophia Lauren legacy.
