Dolce & Gabbana
Designers: Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana

• “Dolce & Gabbana wowed the crowds with a fresh, innovative Sicilian-inspired collection starring intricate wicker bustiers, baroque-sculpture shoes and colourful beach prints–against a set decked out in sand and spikey cacti.” {AFP}
• “‘Meraviglioso,’ the Italian 1960s hit parade song, played over and over as the models marched down the runway in gaily striped and printed outfits all gleaned from the Dolce & Gabbana’s Sicilian treasure trove. And marvelous it all was.” {The Associated Press}
• “The designers stage their shows like great Rossellini films set in sunwashed Sicilian towns, and today is entirely cinematic and cheerful and slightly over the top–in a good way.” {The Cut/New York Magazine}
• “A stirring, silly, dizzying parade of kaleidoscopic patterns, wry uses of materials such as raffia, luxurious embroidery, and evocative prints.” {The Daily Beast/Newsweek}
• “If demure romance doesn’t make a major comeback, it won’t be because Dolce & Gabbana didn’t try.” {The Daily Telegraph}
• “The scene that Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabanna created with clothes so richly crafted and optimistically colour-drenched, lifted the audience back into their own happy place.” {ELLEuk.com}
• “Cheery and bright.” {fashionologie}
• “Dubbed Sea, Sun and Love, it was a commercial and likeable collection.” {The Guardian}
• “The spirit of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana is maxi–and the show was effusive in every way, from earrings that swung as giant raffia circles fancied up with pompoms, through prints of toy soldier puppets on silken sheaths.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “Sound kitsch? You bet it was, maybe even more so than their hot pepper fest of a Spring show last year.” {Style.com}
• “A fast-paced and upbeat runway show that transported us ‘back to the holidays!’ as Gabbana exulted backstage.” {Vogue.com}
• “Dolce & Gabbana took us on a glorious holiday experience this afternoon for their spring/summer 2013 collection–this was truly a hot summer wardrobe, in every sense.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “The collection was the fashion equivalent of a souvenir shop, so stocked with kitschy local clichés that one wondered if it were done in partnership with the Sicilian bureau of tourism.” {WWD}