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Dolce & Gabbana

milan_FW.jpgblog_dg_01.jpgDolce & Gabbana: Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce took the Surrealist movement as their inspiration, a theme implying mystery, random associations, visual tricks and an abundance of ideas, one would think, from which to pilfer. And there were obvious, delightful references: leather gloves masquerading as scarves and hats, shoes cut like a woman's profile, broochlike buttons featuring golden, gloved hands clasping coral fans. Such extras decorated lavishly done-up clothes: a pouf-shouldered ribbon-weave checkerboard dress, an LBD with giant ruffled shoulders, an astrakhan coat with shaggy goat sleeves of Schiaparelli "shocking" pink (the mostly black-and-white show's key accent color) falling from enormous shoulders. Virtually everything was powerful and pretty.Yet if it sounds repetitive, it was, and too often familiar. We've been seeing shoulders galore all season ... click for more from WWD

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By W Magazine
March 2, 2009

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