Show review in a line: Italian opulence presented in the history-steeped island of Sardinia.
Designers: Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana
Location: Park of Nora
The vision: To fully immerse yourself in a Dolce&Gabbana Alta Moda show is to truly sink into its locality. Every year, the company showcases a spectacle of its brand experience. This year, it involved more than 700 guests flying in from all over the world to descend upon Forte Village resort—which connects various villas and hotels—interweaving like a Dolce-dedicated universe of VIP clients, celebrities, and press.
The second part of the Dolce&Gabbana Alta Moda 2024 experience, which spans four days, showcased the designer duo’s inspiration drawn from the beauty of Sardinia—an Italian island renowned for its sparkling waters and rich history. They chose the Park of Nora, a unique peninsula that touches two seas and is steeped in the cultural history of the Phoenicians and Romans, as the setting for this year’s collection.
“We like Nora because it’s a unique location, like a peninsula that touches two seas. It is a place culturally full of history, where the Phoenicians and Romans arrived. We wanted to narrate the story of the ancient past and relate it to the present with a particularly modern sculpture,” the duo shared during a press conference.
The vibe: The scene was set by American artist Phillip K. Smith III, who created a larger-than-life installation featuring eleven mirror columns that anchored the experience. With celebrities like Naomi Campbell, San from Ateez and Rosie Huntington in attendance, the experience was set to be full blown. Smith’s modern artistry was juxtaposed with an immersion in Sardinian history through traditional costumes, textiles, singing, and dancing. Domenico and Stefano’s creative genius reimagined these elements into an assortment of one-of-a-kind pieces. Anchored by gold filigree—a mode of metalwork most commonly seen in jewellery—the collection also featured intricate plating, feathers, and weaving. Flowing black dresses were topped off with gargantuan and intricate ear pieces; waists were cinched with sheer gold boning, and forearms were adorned with long cuffs. The Sardinian traditional costume–which most showgoers would have seen while walking into the space–showed up various ways. One of the show’s star looks, a colour woven smorgasbord of a gown, mirrored that very vibrancy.
What to shop from the collection: While black and gold featured heavily, the collection also breathed in pockets of colour, from succulent reds to bright yellows. Amidst the intricately detailed couture, Dolce&Gabbana mastered the beauty of wearability. This was evident in pieces like a blinding white lace dress, a tiered white shirt that played on the exposure of skin, and feathered and plumed skirts. A signature we see being added into the wardrobe rotations of both seasoned Dolce lovers as well as newly introduced fans? Black and gold ballet flats that accompanied the brand’s intricate couture creations, simple, understated, yet the perfect accessory. As Domenico puts it, couture, and Dolce&Gabbana couture at that, is a commitment. A very beautiful yet worthy one.
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