Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have always celebrated the dualities of womanhood in their collections—the masculine and the feminine, the severe and the sensual, the prim and style, filtered through that Dolce&Gabbana lens—there were razor-sharp, pinstriped tailoring with soft fluttering polka-dot blouses; big faux furs and sheer trench coats; Peter Pan collars and garter belts. In their hands, the models carried little jewel-like bags that glinted against the inky black of most of their outfits. Its shape and size were meant to be discreet, ala ladylike pocketbooks in the ’60s. But the gold, the pearls, the openwork construction—they were made for seizing the spotlight.
