Milan Fashion Week S/S 2011: Womenswear Collections

Versace

To say that the opening dress looks at Versace were snug is to do them an injustice. The models were in fact wrapped mummy-tight into crisp white mid calf dresses or two piece skirt suits with electric yellow or cherry patent leather geometric trims . The top halves of these body conscious silhouettes had been sliced into using exact-o knife precision to create round edges of negative space. Slowly a bright color party started, first by trails of Versace's signature Greek fret motif, then by vertical paint stripe prints, flappy fringe and, later, all three at once. Versace's red carpet game will undoubtedly be a stringy affair as its single tone gowns in turquoise, nude, white and red, were awash in yards of floor length fringe.

An African tribal dress to wear poolside at the Delano in Florida: the short printed fringe dress with red bondage heels.