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January 10, 2025
Dolce & Gabbana have by no means staged a style present in Paris, however they give the impression of being destined to beat town within the subsequent two months, due to their exhibition “Du Coeur à La Main.”
Dolce & Gabbana’s Du Coeur à la Predominant – Mariano Vivanco
Unveiled on Thursday contained in the world’s most stunning exhibition house, the Grand Palais, this sensational exhibition rambles by 11 rooms, somewhat like its topic. Du Coeur à la Predominant – which means “From Heart to Hand” – is fully dedicated to the final 12 years of Dolce & Gabbana’s profession once they launched themselves into Alta Moda – the Italian time period for high fashion. That includes over 200 distinctive Alta Moda and Alta Sartoria menswear appears; 300 handmade equipment and 230 items of furnishings and décor, it’s an open love letter to Italian tradition and artisans – the wellsprings of Dolce & Gabbana’s creativity.
Since they debuted in Alta Moda in 2012 Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have switch-backed throughout the peninsula displaying within the nice cities and historic sights of Italy: from their opening present in a Roman amphitheater in Taormina, to a Grand Canal palazzo in Venice, Renaissance villa in Florence, or historic Greek temple of Agrigento in Sicily. At every cease, working with native artisans, finest exemplified by a room dedicated to the artwork and craft of glassmaking, with Venetian mirrors, chandeliers and glass embroidered silver clothes, that includes the flicker of Barovier & Toso, a family-owned artisan enterprise on the lagoon relationship again to 1295. The place else, however in Italy does custom have such deep roots? The duo do have nice rivals in couture, although relating to menswear couture, they take the heavyweight crown – due to their perfectionist tailoring, sense of fantasy, distinctive embroidery an uncanny sense of witty juxtaposition. Like staging a James Bond-inspired present inside historic Castel dell’Ovo in Naples. Named the Egg Citadel, because the Roman poet Virgil is alleged to have positioned an egg within the foundations of this fortress, situated the place the founders of Naples, Greek colonists of Magna Graecia first constructed a fortress.
InsideDolce & Gabbana’s ‘Du Coeur à la Predominant’ – FashionNetwork.com/Godfrey Deeny
Offered in a piece entitled “Architectural and Pictorial,” most of it menswear, the place the intricate development of coats, fits and capes riffs on the astounding gildings. Works by Raphael, Titian, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca and the legendary fresco cycle of Annibale Carracci from the Palazzo Farnese in Rome flourish on navy coats, corset clothes and grand capes.
All through, there’s a assembly with different artists, most touchingly with the good French-born, Spanish-Vietnamese artist Anh Duong within the opening room, entitled “Handmade.” Encapsulating so lots of Dolce & Gabbana’s inspirations: baroque, Renaissance, Sicily and faith laced with scorching sensuality. Famed for her self-portraits, Duong adopted the duo to their Alta Moda exhibits, sporting appears from every assortment within the very places that impressed them. Earlier than portray fantasy imagery of herself of their creations –a Grecian goddess within the Agrigento temple; a Ghirlandaio princess breastfeeding her child or in a surprising Gattopardo robe in a Palermo’s Palazzo Gangi. “It turned into a wonderful journey through Italy, where in each city I discovered the most magical museums, buildings and people,” mused Duong, who stars in each portrait besides certainly one of Naomi Campbell, as a fantasy courtesan within the final feathered fantasy bustier robe. All Dolce & Gabbana exhibits open with the theme music to “Il Gattopardo,” Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece on Sicilian aristocracy navigating the political upheavals of Garibaldi and the Italian Risorgimento. The duo even dedicate an entire room to it – starring Duong’s gown and a recreation of the well-known Gallery of Mirrors in Palazzo Gangi, the place the movie’s magisterial wedding ceremony ball takes place. All interspersed with clips from the movie. Starring probably the most stunning couple of Italian cinema – Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale. On the entrance to Du Coeur à la Predominant, a big dice of screens mission a video by artist Felice Limosani entitled “The Hands of Humanity,” arms gesticulating like messengers suggesting the common language of fact. One among 4 video artists whose work publicizes the expo. “Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have succeeded in realizing this dream because they are among the rare designers who are both founders and owners of their fashion house and thus free to do whatever they like,” underlined the exhibition curator, Florence Müller.
Inside Dolce & Gabbana’s ‘Du Coeur à la Predominant’ – FashionNetwork.com/Godfrey Deeny
Inside Dolce & Gabbana’s ‘Du Coeur à la Predominant’ – FashionNetwork.com/Godfrey Deeny
In a really actual sense, Domenico and Stefano have lengthy dreamed of matching the heights of nice Paris labels like Chanel, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga or Dior. This show will guarantee them a spot within the Pantheon of the actually biggest designers.
In the course of the opening, when standing earlier than the fake altar within the “Devotion” part, one fan instructed Domenico that the exhibition had consecrated Dolce & Gabbana within the firmament of designers. Inflicting Domenico to chuckle and say: “You mean we have become one of the great heroes of fashion. That’s nice, the only troubled is that would mean we are dead!”
