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Prince @ the Versace Fashion Show 9.29.2006
September 29.2006 Versace Theater Milan, Italy Donatella Versace Fashion Show 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. | |
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FASHION SCOOPS: ROYAL PARTY...SHOW NOTES...ROCK STYLE. WWD| October 02, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Conde Nast Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright 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 ... | |
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very nice pics..
didn't they play a rather cool "loop/ repeat" version of the song:
Around The World In A Day..? Prince 4Ever.  | |
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He looks like somebody's lesbian aunt playing dressup. | |
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^ Excellent setlist
only 1 weak/ annoying song.
Prince 4Ever. | |
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lol | |
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That's it, a Prince aftershow with 99 % Prince songs, | |
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He looks good in white. | |
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What's Manti Te'o doing there? |
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Can't you see? He's feeling his girlfriend's breasts. | |
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true great setlist. Wish his next tour would include some of his better recent songs. | |
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I agree, might as well give them a go | |
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Did this aftershow ever circulate? |
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digg the trenches he's wearing | |
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I really wish I could have caught Prince around this time. The set-list sounded amazing and he seemed to be really in love with his guitar around this time. Everything about it seemed cool! He looks stylish and just in key with everything. It's one of my favorite era's for sure! It's Button Therapy, Baby! | |
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Yes, it started with it, sounded very cool.
You can still find it on the internet. | |
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Prince of the CityThe Artist rocks Milan, while designers says benvenuto, ChuckRumors that Prince would sing only new material during his Friday night concert at Donatella Versace's after-show party kept some fashion types away. Suckers! His Purple Badness reprised "Kiss," and "Anotherloverholeinyohead," then performed "Let's Go Crazy" during his encore. Model trio Lily Donaldson, Irina Lazareanu, and tiara-topped Lily Cole didn't seem inclined to party like it was the early eighties, but those alive when Purple Rain was released, which included most of Donatella's VIP section (Stefano Tonchi, Hal Rubenstein, Ingrid Sischy), certainly did. Halfway through his cover version of "Everyday People," Prince handed off a tambourine to Versace. It wasn't in the designer's hands long, though, before Suzy Menkes snatched it out. "When he came back for 'Purple Rain' it was a real moment," said the International Herald Tribune critic afterward. "We were all in heaven."
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