DUBAI: Dutch Moroccan Egyptian model Imaan Hammam continued to set the catwalks of Milan alight as she walked for Italian luxury houses Bottega Veneta and Dolce & Gabbana over the weekend at the now-concluded Milan Fashion Week.
The Bottega Veneta show, set in a warehouse on the outskirts of Milan, saw the models walk across a floor painted like an abstract map of the world, adorned with fish and bird motifs. “The idea was the back of the Corn Flakes packets in the ’90s when you’d have those maps of how you’d travel, even at home, eating Corn Flakes,” creative director Matthieu Blazy told British Vogue in an interview after the show.
“I thought it was a beautiful idea to have a set where the models would literally travel around a world.”
For a collection that emphasized the dreamy nature of globetrotting, Blazy drew inspiration from the dress codes of countries from various continents. “South America, South-East Asia, Russia, France, Sicily,” he said. “I mean, it was a world of possibilities. We looked at the cultures and the way people dress, and tried to blend it all together to create a kind of… not a new world, but a new proposal for what could be a different inspiration for the world.”
Model Hammam walked the runway in a relaxed denim fit with a chunky overcoat and a large intreccatio bag slung over a shoulder.
Blazy also wrote in show notes that the collection embodies "the personal pleasure of dressing up, of being whoever and whatever you would like to be, of traveling in the imagination as much as in the world through clothing.”
Hammam walks for Dolce & Gabbana at Milan Fashion Week on Sep. 23, 2023. (Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s latest collection explored to the tiniest detail the beauty and artisanal qualities of corsetry.
Celebrity model Ashley Graham wowed in a sheer halter slip and Naomi Campbell commanded the runway in a sheer three-quarter slip.
Hammam also turned heads in a delicate leopard print dress paired with thigh high boots.
“Domenico and Stefano have been inspired by black & white photos and portraits of the past; hence black and white are the dominant colors of the season,” read the show notes.
“This new line is another chapter of Dolce & Gabbana’s project bring forward the DNA of the brand which is based on Italian femininity that Domenico and Stefano want everybody all around the world to know. It’s all a matter of style not just fashion.”
