{"product_id":"vogue-on-dolce-gabbana-9781849499729","title":"Vogue on: Dolce \u0026 Gabbana","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDomenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are the most successful design partnership in fashion history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince they burst on to the scene in Milan in the eighties, their multi-million-dollar women's line, menswear, underwear, shoes jewellery and swimwear empire has become one of the dominating forces in Italian – and world – fashion. Every year, the opulent and dramatic presentations, in ever-more spectacular locations, of their successful 21st-century haute couture line Alta Moda are rapturously received by the fashion press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir hot-blooded, theatrical style is inspired by the Sicily of Visconti's 1963 film \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e, by Catholic imagery and by the Italian screen sirens like Sophia Loren and Monica Bellucci who wear the designs captured here by \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e’s stable of photographers: curvaceous dresses, spectacularly colourful coats, Swarovski-crystal-embroidered corsets, tulle ball-gowns hand painted with beautiful floral images, baroque brocades and lashings of leopard-print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dolce and Gabbana woman – characterised, according to \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, as having ‘a life that reaches beyond, complete with fantasy, turmoil and always a story’– is sensual but proper: actress Isabella Rosselini describes ‘The first piece of theirs I wore was a white shirt, very chaste, but cut to make my breasts look as if they were bursting out of it,’ while Madonna, more prosaically, simply says: ‘I like their designs because they make clothes for a womanly body.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quadrille Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360214024535,"sku":"9781849499729","price":14.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781849499729.jpg?v=1754127006","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vogue-on-dolce-gabbana-9781849499729","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}