Dolce & Gabbana cont.

 

Sunday I went back to the DOLCE & GABBANA exhibit early, 10:00 🕙 The French are still sleeping 😴 The line was short.

I wanted to see their Gift 🎁 Shop

The catalog is available in English & French - paperback 48€.

Beautiful silk scarves - 190€

Wines, perfumes, nougat in fancy tins etc. The tote bag & T-shirts were black with the show title (not D&G etc.)

If there was a wild Sicilian patterned tote bag I would have grabbed it in a flash. No cute little chatchkas like a key chain or a stick pin…

Outside the shop, which is one flight up taking the elevator, turn left. Et voila, you’re at the beginning of the show. 

They changed the route for visitors. More organized, less crowded, less confusion 👏 

I checked my coat at entrance - much easier to navigate the rooms minus a heavy winter coat. 

I didn’t show you the fabulous homage 

To Italian glassworkers 

Like Murano and Barovier.

Called, ‘L’art et savoir faire du verre’

Presented at the Doge’s palace in Venice in 2021.

Instead of operatic arias 🎵playing in the background, the sound of crunching, broken glass!

Every Dolce & Gabbana collection is an homage to a different part of Italy 🇮🇹 In 2020 this show was held at Villa Bardini in Firenze. 

The models had to climb up and down this long stone stairway. 

I went crazy ❤️

For this flowered 🌺 hat in the show…

Such wild flights of extravagant fantasy

I know little about Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana. They have certainly behaved in a controversial and disruptive manner at times. But no one can claim they are short on talent or inspiration.

Even this little girl was ignited by their inspiration. 

I say go if you can ❤️

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