There are a lot of news about Dolce & Gabbana in the past two days, let’s talk about them one by one.
Remember the drone “carrying” a handbag on the Dolce & Gabbana runway at Milan Fashion Week at the end of February? WITHOUT MODELS AND FLAMBOYANT OUTFITS TO DISTRACT THEM, EVERYONE’S FOCUS FELL ON DRONES AND HANDBAGS, AND SUCH A BIG POMP WAS PRECISELY TO INTRODUCE A NEW MEMBER OF THE FAMILY – DEVOTTION HANDBAGS. In addition to the special treatment on the runway, Dolce & Gabbana recently opened the pre-sale of this series of handbags on its official website.
DEVOTION handbag, as the name suggests, is a bag with the theme of “love”, the most iconic design is a gorgeous heart created by pearl and filigree craftsmanship on the flip, open the handbag, the lining also has a filigree craft love heart decoration. The overall design of the handbag is very simple, and the focus is on this very Dolce & Gabbana-style heart.
The Fall/Winter 2018 DEVOTION bag includes two styles, a handbag and a cross-body bag. The handbag is only available in a large size, in two colours, poppy red and black, with quilted finishes. The handbag is priced at 17,900 yuan, and the pre-order will be received on August 31.
There are many choices of cross-body bags, in terms of size, in addition to the 25.5cm wide large and 21cm wide medium, there are quilted decorations and more simple glossy surfaces, and the color scheme is in addition to poppy red and black and has an extra bright white. You can also get the goods a month earlier than the handbag, and as for the price, the large one is 18,900 yuan, and the medium size is 16,900 yuan.
Interested students can book through the store and the official website, which has also supported WeChat Pay since March, and previously only supported credit cards and Alipay.
In addition to opening a pre-order model for new handbags on its official website, Dolce & Gabbana also brought haute couture to New York. You may think that this is nothing new, the crazy Dolce & Gabbana is now the most frequent luxury brand every year, in the context of luxury brands have merged men’s and women’s wear launches or even canceled fashion shows to save costs, Dolce & Gabbana is a unique show, fashion Monday week in a row 3 shows, with haute couture collections all over the world, is not a thing.
However, there is something special about the couture show in New York these two days. Starting with its fall/winter 2012 collection, Dolce & Gabbana launched its haute couture collection, which started out with a particularly mysterious beginning, taking a wave of VVIP charters to the island after Paris Haute Couture Week to show them haute couture jewelry, menswear and womenswear, all paid for a few days. Media outlets are not invited (only a very small number of top media editors-in-chief are invited), and information is not posted on official social media.
At the end of 2016, this haute couture series began to transform, in December for the first time outside Italy to hold a press conference, in the past year, with the haute couture series in major cities around the world, from East Asia to the Middle East, if previously to receive VVIP to the runway, now the brand’s strategy can be said to bring the show to VVIP. On April 18, the brand’s haute couture show will also land in Latin America for the first time and will be displayed in Mexico City.
New York’s haute couture show has many special features, first of all, the clothes are newly designed, the previous press conferences in Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, London were mostly “fried cold rice”, the previous haute couture series displayed in the city style of the venue to take out a series, specially designed, debut clothing is very few.
In addition to the women’s fashion show in New York, there is also a special men’s clothing launch and jewelry launch. In fact, this is a true Dolce & Gabbana haute couture showcase, the brand has postponed the original tradition of showing after Paris Haute Couture Week in January by 3 months, and moved the location to New York.
Going back and looking at the haute couture collection designed for New York, the show showcased a full 100 looks. The show was opened by Karlie Kloss in a red feather dress, reminiscent of the classic design from Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2001 collection.
The finale of several dresses are corsets on the upper body, and the lower body is a huge skirt printed with New York landmarks, which is undoubtedly very New York and Dolce & Gabbana.
From the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, the skyline and other New York business cards, to the American flag, the US dollar and other elements are not absent.
The two designers, who are particularly obsessed with “trends”, also applied street elements to haute couture design, and everyone is welcome to express their opinions on how the effect is. By the way, there is also news that Dolce & Gabbana will bring a joint name with Supreme next, I don’t know what everyone thinks?
Some designs are probably beyond the acceptance of the vast majority of people, such as the pants and suits in the following pictures…
The Dolce & Gabbana show conveys its attitudes in a very direct way to consumers of all sizes, skin tones, ages and religions.
In an interview with Italian media Corriere della Sera earlier this month, the two founders said that they had rejected all acquisition offers, and that “when we die, the brand will disappear with it.” They also set up a separate trust to prevent one of the dead and an heir completely unfamiliar with the business from taking over the brand. There is no doubt that the two founders wanted Dolce & Gabbana to be a brand that embodies their design attitude from start to finish.
Whether it is the design style, the marketing strategy and some extreme comments from the two designers, Dolce & Gabbana is often in a controversial position, and the brand is not even a member of the Italian Fashion Council and is not on the official schedule of fashion week. Like the brand’s extremely gorgeous design, the attitude of the two founders is never in the middle of the middle, which naturally makes people’s attitude towards Dolce & Gabbana show two extremes. Some people are obsessed with it, and some people hate such glitz.