BEAUTY: Clothing--Dolce and Gabbana

Dolce and Gabbana are nothing if not prolific. Over the last many, many years, they have produced mind-bogglingly sumptuous collections for both men and women with incredible themes that are almost always centered on their home country, Italy. And while other houses and designers present collections that encompass perhaps twenty or thirty looks, D&G regularly presented 100 or more looks in each collection. But interestingly, the last few years have seen have seen D&G tone down the elements in their collections in favor of more minimalistic--and fewer--looks.

But at Milano Moda Uomo, D&G presented a Spring-Summer 2025 collection that seems to be leaning toward their established M.O., clocking in at nearly sixty looks. Yes, the style is still a little minimal compared with some of their past wild collections, but this time is all about craftsmanship and a handmade ethos. The Italian fashion industry does have some of the finest workers in the world and a bit of that skill was on display with garments made of actual woven raffia with patterns that look like furniture caning (click on some of the images below to get a better look at this incredible material). And a section of pants, shirts, and jackets studded with beads, jewels, and pieces of coral was absolutely stunning. As for a theme, it is easy to see by the cut of shirts and trousers (and the easy-breezy soundtrack of bossa nova and tango tunes) that we have settled somewhere in the 50's-60s, with a sense of Italian dolce vita, a sort of "life-on-the-Amalfi coast" moment with maritime references (love those big, splayed sailor collars). Did the recent success of "Ripley," the serialized adaptation of Patricia Hightower's novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley" play a part in it? Whatever the impetus, it is a wildly successful collection.

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