Dolce&Gabbana’s caliente Miami

Maluma and Marc Anthony do not stand still for a second. They move their shoulders, they have rhythm in their blood, they dance in unison on their seat at the Dolce&Gabbana show. That rhythmic music becomes a pied piper’s melody of Ocean drive at the haute couture fashion show that Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana brought to Miami in a very special location: the halls and terraces of the surf club at the Four seasons hotel, almost ready to celebrate its 100th anniversary. «Miami is a sort of Sicily in the US, with its mix & match of cultures and peoples», the two designers explained to MFF minutes before the fashion show. «It brings to mind the Italian myth of the Dolce vita and we wanted to come here to celebrate the beginning of a new American dream, in the sign of the joy of living».

And in the sunny Florida metropolis there is more than just a fashion show going on. At Design Miami/, high jewelry is celebrated with a stand mixing digital projections and the reality of artisans at work. While at Design district the home collection debuts, inside the store of partner Luxury living group. Next Friday, there will be a mega party at Gloria Estefan’s hotel, the queen of the city since her performances with the Miami sound machines. The spotlight, however, first shines on those aerial, sensual silhouettes on the défilé. The appeal is caliente in the slits, in the transparencies in a mix that from Sicily, the aesthetic emblem of the maison, marries with a Latin soul. Veils over the face but also shy capes that leave everything exposed. Slits that reveal precious underwear with those sudden gusts of wind in the long aisles that lift the skirts. Light polka dots, fringes, three-dimensional embroidered or set flowers for jeweled dresses that marry skillful stone workings, which return to illuminate jackets with pearls that sway, or swathing dresses as a mirror, then to indulge in dessous worn with large capes. Next to passion and sensuality, here is the rigor of the haute couture man. Rigor in tailoring jackets embroidered and sculpted on the body. The perfect gentleman’s hair, the glittering appliqués that evoke Hollywood star nights, the starched shirts like an old-fashioned New year’s eve. Smudge-free, flawless. Flawless as perfected red-carpet make-up.

Judgement. Miami glam machine you might say, paraphrasing the historical group Gloria Estefan sang in. Since all that energy of the two designers comes to town, ready to tell all about their world at multiple times. Contaminating their Sicilian sensuality, their craftmanship know-how, with an all-latin fever. (All rights reserved)