Haven't done one of these in a while

September 29.2006
Versace Theater Milan, Italy
Gianni Versace Fashion Show


Prince @ the Versace Show 9.29.2006
Versace's Spring/Summer 2007 women's collections during Milan Fashion Week







By Sophie Hardach

MILAN (Reuters) - Gone were the acid colours, gone were the clinging plastic trousers, as Versace feted its new, sober style with 1960s cream shift dresses and geometric prints.

Platinum-haired Donatella Versace hasn't completely left behind her glamorama days -- pop star Prince sat in a celebrity-studded front row, huddled in a cream-coloured coat, and watched models strut past to the pumping beats of his music.

"You don't have to be rich to be my girl," Prince's voice squeaked through the loudspeakers, but the girls on the catwalk told a different story with cool thigh-skimming dresses and gold-handled bags that were made for the jet set.

Versace plunged into heavy losses after founder Gianni Versace was murdered in the 1990s, and sales dived as his sister Donatella veered from one screamingly flamboyant collection to the next.

It has since then undergone a radical turnaround cure, repositioning itself as a super-luxury brand, shedding loss-making units and boosting its profitable accessories business -- cue a green clutch bag and white leather bags dangling from gold chains in Friday's fashion show.







Brown, black and white geometric print dresses, a mustard yellow empire waist dress, chocolate-brown shorts and tailored jackets followed that sensible, business-conscious spirit.

Amid the wearable, sellable clothes, Donatella Versace's love for glamour shone through in the form of gold straps on white dresses, angel wings on a white and silver gown, a gold-plate bustier and a long pink princess gown.

The 1960s shift dresses, the nods to Gianni Versace's high-octane style were in line with a retro-happy fashion week.

With Giorgio Armani looking back to the elegant days of his youth, Gucci and Burberry yearning for the 1960s and Dolce & Gabbana throwing in some 1980s aggressiveness, Milan fashion week was too nostalgic for some.









"Milan's been a little bit disappointing," said Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue and the only journalist to be escorted through the queuing crowds by four burly men in suits.

"There are too many designers here looking to the past, going through their old magazines ... I am looking forward to Paris," she said with a smile.

Canadian label DSquared had jumped on the retro train earlier that Friday, reconstructing an Italian piazza for its Dolce Vita-themed fashion show and blasting out 1950s summer hits.

Twins Dean and Dan Caten had set up café facades complete with bustling waiters and loitering young men on scooters to create the right mood for their yellow or navy-with-gold-buttons jackets, ice cream-pink striped mini-dresses, shorts and cropped Capri trousers.



Afterparty
1.Musicology
2.Fury
3.Cream
4.Joy In Repetition
5.U Got The Look
6.Anotherloverholenyohead
7.7
8.If I Was Your Girlfriend
9.Forever In My Life
10.Everyday People
11.Lolita
12.Black Sweat
13.Kiss
14.Pink Cashmiere
15.Purple Rain
16.Let's Go Crazy

Prince looked good as always Thank you for posting this!

Very nice indeed-Princey was looking delicious as always

This was a good look for him (a little pasty in the white, but it's been that way since, oh, around 1993). Liked the simple gold long coat and the black shirt, his hair was awesome.

He should go back to that.

Or totally revamp his D+P pre-O+> typhoon look.

I don't oft reply to threads;however, two things...

The shoes on the catwalk... "deva-stating," just absolutely beautiful.

The dress with the very flowing "peacock style feathers," yeah, that does it for me... gorgeous.
Simply Gorgeous.

The twins, they look very refined and beautiful.

Mr. Nelson, well that just goes to say - his style has always been the cusp of the moon and the eclipse of the sun - when you see it, you stop and say..."nice."

Take care
me

What happened to the twins anyways?

I wonder if Bria knows that she's got the shelf-life of sushi.

TheVoid said:

The Twinz are still dancing for other artists, do their own music and play here and there.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Filthy cute!

Acrylic said:

hell yeah....love him in a hat...and **cough** somewhat topless.

anyone have any more pics of the aftershow?

Acrylic said:

This pic should have been on my old "Prince Smiles" thread, he looks adorable!

OldFriends4Sale said:[quote]Haven't done one of these in a while

September 29.2006
Versace Theater Milan, Italy
Gianni Versace Fashion Show







Funny thing about the Twinz. When I see them without Prince they strike me as extremely plain.
However when they were with Prince their make-up made them look pretty and exotic. They made cute arm candy for him and he looked fine next to them.

They must be tiny ladies if one of them could fit between Prince and his guitar and he could still play it.

I doubt that we will be seeing them with Prince in the future. Too bad.

All I can say is they look mad dumb in sunglasses. Inside, and the only ones wearin them.

Acrylic said:

Indeed

HOW DID WE ALL MISS THIS PIC UP UNTIL NOW? where was it hiding?

Deadflow3r said:

It's been posted here several times before. You've just missed it

Acrylic said:

Reminds me of the Parade era

FASHION SCOOPS: ROYAL PARTY...SHOW NOTES...ROCK STYLE.
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ROYAL PARTY: "It was beyond," said a sweaty, out-of-breath David LaChapelle, following Prince's electrifying private concert at the Versace Theater in Milan Friday night. LaChapelle, who danced "Like it was 1999," wasn't alone in his sentiment. Donatella Versace, who has known the artist known just as Prince for 15 years, didn't stop shaking her svelte body once during his hour-plus performance. "He was incredible. Wonderful," Versace said backstage. "He has such a sensual intellect."

Don't know about his intellect, but his moves and licks sure were steamy. Ditto for Prince's new backup singers, known as The Twinz. The sisters moved like a latter-day Tina ...

I'm going 2 add this 2 the 3121 era thread