Editor’s Notice: This Dolce & Gabbana assortment was introduced in Milan in October 1997. It has been digitized as a part of Vogue Runway’s ongoing efforts to doc the historical past of vogue exhibits.
This week in Rome—not removed from Vatican Metropolis, the place the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV resides—Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana introduced an Alta Sartoria assortment populated from starting to finish with “haute monks.” A few of these males wore seems impressed by ecclesiastical garb, others items embroidered with spiritual symbols.
As proof that the catholic creativeness was current in Dolce & Gabbana’s work lengthy earlier than the Costume Institute’s 2018 “Heavenly Our bodies” exhibition, we revisit the label’s fall 1997 ready-to-wear assortment, which could have been titled Il Papa and the Scorching Mamas.
At this present, impressed by the spiritual processions of southern Italy, the sacred combined with the profane, and austerity was contrasted by overtly luxe thrives, comparable to fur collars and feathers (actual and printed). In line with their perennial boy-meets-girl theme, sharp pinstriped fits shared area with sinuous corset robes. Neckties even accessorized a few of the extra priestly seems. At this model, holiness makes for good enterprise.