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Made in Italy: Sartorial Excellence
Sartorial excellence has long been a value which Dolce&Gabbana strive to provide to their clients. Highly skilled tailors, a string sartorial tradition, the finest fabrics and attention to detail usually found in the made to measure realm set Dolce&Gabbana tailoring apart from many other fashion houses.
Masculine Attraction: a constant truth
The play between masculine and feminine is a long standing interest of Dolce&Gabbana. Early on, the designers began to investigate the allure of a woman dressed in traditionally masculine items. Since then, rigorously tailored ensembles, which in a way add emphasise to the woman’s forms, and not swamps them into androgyny, have become synonymous with Dolce&Gabbana to the same extent as the body con lingerie inspired dress.
Men’s Trend review FW13: Sheer Luxe
The mood at the men’s shows was almost oxymoronic to the times. Luxury was the buzzword for the season. Exquisitely crafted suits, tailored coats, fur, cashmere and couture like detailing such as gold thread embroidery made a stark contrast the sombre economic mood.
Contemporary tailoring, when leather becomes sartorial
The world which revolves around the office is changing, and with that so is the dress code. With offices becoming increasingly less “stuffy” environments, office wear is adapting. Dolce&Gabbana have a fantastic understanding of what the young professionals want to wear, both at work and at play.
DGFW13: Video Must have
The Fall Winter 2013 Dolce&Gabbana Collection was a baroque wonder, with at its centre the overcoat. The undisputed protagonist of the season is the coat, in all its versions. The Swide team have put together a video which features the most important items and themes from the collection. Pens at the ready, i see a shopping list emerging.
Dolce & Gabbana Men’s FW13: Must Haves
This season its all about the coat. Classic, exquisitely embroidered or in the form of a cape- the coat is the item around which the Dolce&Gabbana FW13 world goes round.
Eccentricity is an unfailing trend
English utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill famously wrote that "the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained”. Eccentricity is a behavioural phenomenon that has fascinated and defined many instrumental thinkers throughout history.
Disguise and role reversal in myth, literature and fashion
Dolc&Gabbana have referenced traditional masculine tailoring in their womenswear collections almost as early as their first fashion show. But what is it about role reversal that has fascinated thinkers, artists and politicians for centuries?
Designers Dolce & Gabbana reveal their designs on China
In an interview to Hong Kong magazine Prestige, the Italian design duo open up about their relationships with each other, with their celebrities, with their creativity and with the world’s second largest economy: China.
| Nov 14, 2011 | Style > Press Cuttings
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De-mystifying an urban myth- classic can be cool
The notion that classic is boring and urban is kooky is not always accurate. The Dolce&Gabbana FW11 collection, actually, turns this mantra on its head.
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Over the next few months, Luxury London will be bringing you a mini-series and presenting a personal London guide that can be referenced any time you visit this wondrous city. I implore you to join me as I dig digger in to my Luxury London.
Have you ever thought about Palermo as the ideal city for lovers? St. Valentine’s day is coming and I’d like to suggest to you the top 5 romantic places in my city: each location has a little story behind it all relating to love... let’s discover them!
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and today I have a special treat for you. I have asked 7 of my illustrator friends a few questions related to this special occasion and, to make this article special, 2 of them have each prepared an original Dolce & Gabbana art work as a Valentine’s gift to the Swide readers.
Andrea Preti invites us to one of his Dolce&Gabbana shoots and gives us a sneak peek into his pre-shoot routine and also shares some of his body secrets. But when you're in demand like Andrea is, a 5 minute chat is never easy...
I honestly fail to see sense in Valentine's day if you're a day over 13-years-old. Single people use it as an excuse to complain about being single (all men are jerks and all girls are crazy and whatnot), and couples ignore it or use it as an excuse to invite single friends over for dinner and boast about their love.
New York Fashion Week is on from February 9th: here are 5 Swide tips on how to take a break between one fashion show and the next.
When the Swide team was backstage at the Men’s Dolce&Gabbana FW13 fashion show, we couldn’t help but eavesdrop on what the male models were talking about; the questions that girls ask them again and again and again.
We’re living in a golden age of sport and especially for tennis. Years from now when we look back at sporting history of tennis the narrative will be all about three names: Rodger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. The scary thing is of the three, it’s Djokovic who still has to write the greatest chapter in his tennis story. Here are 5 reasons why Novak is the greatest of all time: