It was a great tartan themed collection success for Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. D&G the collection where the fun never stopped was the big winner. So there were clothes that looked aged, tea dyed, even moth eaten looks, which gave the proceedings a winning quality.
Gucci Fall Winter 2008/09 Collection featuring the modern gypsy girl look with a sexy layered conservative look. Gucci clearly inspired Giannini to push the boat out into dangerous waters, but moments of relative restraint accounted for the collection’s most appealing pieces. All those folk art prints, for instance, looked fresh. A chunky gray knit turned must have with a studded leather trim. Coins and charms were not only wrapped around waists, they also winningly decorated the placket of a shirt and piled onto a messenger bag. Coats and jackets were enhanced with velvet and fur trims and a pony skin biker jacket lined in beaver felt like the essence of Giannini’s casual, opulent, young ethos. Her ability to make her fantasies real was her original strength. Here, she went some way to recapturing it
Giambattista Valli, the former Givenchy designer featured floral prints and black bows as belts on dresses, evoking Parisian romance. For daywear, Valli featured tops with printed florals with either pale yellow or beige pants. For the evening, arguably the strongest of the entire 20 look collection, there were cocktail dresses and strapless gowns that came in deep red and pink. Both cocktail dresses and gowns had gentle poufed proportions on one side of the clothes, further embodying a romantic feel on the looks.