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Versace: Big, Brash & Beautiful
By: Godfrey Deeny
Photos by Gruber-FWD
Milan, Jun 14, 2002/FWD/ --- Just when the ennui was beginning to overpower the jaded coterie
of fashion editors sipping aperitivos at Milan's Four Seasons Hotel, along came Donatella
Versace, ready to inject a high dose of oxygen into the Italian men's fashion season that
kicked off here on Sunday.
After a day of far too many "real" clothes for "real" men with "real" lives, the Versace
Fall/Winter 2002 show -- part Gothic, part gangsta rapper -- was blissfully exuberant and bold.
Theatrical biker jackets with antique lettering worn over slick black suits and pants with
large paisley prints walked down the runway on some of the sexiest looking males in the world.
Officer's insignia and brocade enlivened some snappily cut black suits and scarves and tops
with medieval scrawls.
Less is never more at Versace, and more is always more -- as a huge
woolen coat in windowpane check worn over a massive embossed leather coat over a sleek suit
shouted.
Donatella always likes to blend a few fair ladies into the proceedings, and this time she
picked the exquisite Gisele Bundchen, who looked dazzling in an asymmetric leather cocktail
dress with lace fringe.
The girls were done up with some outlandishly big hair of Tolkien proportions -- call it a
tribute to New Jersey, the sort of coiffure that would make the "Sopranos" gang call themselves
Falsetto.
Post-show, the Versaces generously invited a flock of senior editors and several international
soccer stars to dine upstairs on risotto and pasta with truffles in their via Gesu headquarters.
Boy George spun the discs with distinction, while the lovely Carmen Kass manned the blackjack
tables, surely the cutest croupier in the history of gambling.
Our readers will be glad to know, judging by how much money Carmen cleaned out from a pack
of stylists and male models, the supe has a sure future in the casino business.
All she needs to do is... strut!
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