Dolce & Gabbana
Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana founded Dolce & Gabbana in 1985. The brand, which has gone on to become one of Italian fashion’s behemoths, is synonymous with decadence and ostentation, and a Sicilian sensuality derived from Domenico Dolce’s birthplace. The brand’s opulent empire covers ready-to-wear, perfume and even a made-to-measure men’s and women’s line, with fans lusting after its shoes, glasses and baroque accessories. Here, we bring you fashion reviews and editorial shoots, and exclusive insight into the brand’s design collaborations and retail architecture extravaganzas, from London to Tokyo, Venice to St Barts.
The jigsaw-like marble staircase in Dolce & Gabbana’s Old Bond Street store in London wins Best Ascent award in the 2018 Wallpaper* Design Awards (see W*227). Photography: Hélène Binet
During Salone del Mobile 2018 in Milan, Dolce & Gabbana’s Metropol Theatre staged Ferruccio Laviani’s design hits for Emmemobili. Photography: Gianluca Vassallo
Dolce & Gabbana’s extravagant A/W 2018 runway show, which imagined fashion as a form of religion. Photography: Jason Lloyd-Evans
At Salone del Mobile 2016, Dolce & Gabbana and Smeg launched a collection of hand-painted fridges. Photography: courtesy of Smeg
Dolce & Gabbana’s A/W 2015 menswear invitation mirrored the show’s themes of love, family and community with a sentimental montage of vintage photographs
At Dolce & Gabbana’s Gwenael Nicolas designed boutique in Aoyama, Tokyo, the space features a graphic golden staircase which evokes the baroque Sicilian splendour of Italy
Dolce & Gabbana is featured as part of our outerwear shoot at Albion Barn in Oxfordshire as part of in the July 2017 issue of Wallpaper* (W*220). Jacket, £2,917, by Dolce & Gabbana. Jacket (worn underneath), £5,100; shirt, £600; trousers, £785, by Louis Vuitton. Tie, £176, by Martine Rose. Shoes, £820, by Dior Homme. Interior Space: Blood of the Gazelle, 1986, red Egyptian granite, by Stephen Cox. Photography: Jeff Boudreau. Fashion: Harry Lambert
Tokyo-based French architect and interior designer Gwenaël Nicolas delivers thrills at Dolce & Gabbana’s Milan flagship, which features furniture taken from private homes in Sicily, and Gio Ponti and Ico Parisi design pieces. As originally featured in the November 2016 issue of Wallpaper* (W*212)
Dolce & Gabbana’s Carbondale-designed boutique in Venice is housed inside the the 19th-century Palazzo Torres. It designs celebrates mercantile craftsmanship, with the walls adorned with wooden bas-reliefs depicting scenes of the city’s artisanal and commercial life, and a hallway a 20m long hallway, lined with splendid 24ct gold glass mosaic and marbled Venetian stucco
Dolce & Gabbana’s A/W 2017 show featured a host of millennial models with enormous social media followings, striding the catwalk in ostentatious outfits. Photography: Jason Lloyd-Evans
