Inside DolceGabbana's lavish three days in Venice for the brand's Alta Moda and Alta Sartoria collections
Dolce and Gabbana love Venice, and I’ve spent a whirlwind three days watching the city return their passion. Italian or not, most artists, writers, or designers, at some point in their career, pay inspirational homage to the city. “Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go,” declared American novelist Truman Capote. I know what he means. It’s addictive.
The next day models float to the Alta Moda runway on gondolas, the silver and blue shirts of the gondoliers designed to reflect the color of the moon above. No one does regal better than Helen Mirren wearing a gem-studded corset and billowing renaissance style crinoline. J.Lo emerges from the lagoon like a beautiful sea princess with hair piled beneath a golden crown. She’s Ben-less, but Dame Helen’s husband, film director Taylor Hackford, is adoringly filming Mirren’s every move.
Next, the Carnivale moves onto the Arsenale, the heart of Venice’s ship-building industry for seven centuries, to watch the. The range of monumental brick buildings has been modernized and repurposed as a center of operations for Venice’s MOSE projects, the flood system created to protect the Venetian lagoon from tidal flooding. Leopard print has gone viral here, and I succumb wearing a beautifully tailored leopard print jacket.
The following scene was surreal; Vin Diesel, Puff Daddy’s children, Doja Cat with assorted burly bodyguards all sheltered with guests removing shirts and jackets to drip dry; others appeared later at dinner in chic borrowed black silk gowns. Emma Weymouth arrives with a wide smile, looking as if she’s taken a swim in the lagoon. We huddle laughing and sharing “wet” stories, some blow-drying the couture they’d bought the previous evening.
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