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Versace introduced a new era of “The Super Sexpot” in a blockbuster show at Milan Fashion Week. This spring/summer collection had all hallmarks of a vintage production when late Gianni Versace created the supermodels nearly twenty years ago.

Vivid pastels, baroque curlicues, fluorescents, psychedelic prints, leather, geometric prints, short-short skirts, cleavage, corsets, and slinky, sexy chain mail, phew…! This collection delivered it all with knockout force and boom.

Donatella Versace’s inspiration was Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which will be coming out this March. Aside from spectacle of fantasy, collection was a melting-pot of wondrous technology and handwork. Some silk chiffon gowns were made from more than 20 metres cloth and were hand-embroidered with yards of fine silver thread.

Bustier-dresses and skirts, just managing to cover the upper thigh, were fashioned from lime, pink, and aquamarine chain-mail with turreted hems. Butt-skimming pelmets came in clear plastic, silver metal, and punched leather, worn with matching maillots or backless knits.

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Janet Jackson, Roger Federer and his wife, Rupert Everett, Mario Testino, and British designer Christopher Kane, who is a consultant for Versace’s diffusion line, Versus were among the front-row guests at Versace’s show. Donatella’s hard work resulted in a sure-footed, happy collection guaranteed to pique the interest of her and her daughter’s generation as well.

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