(Yep, theyll be reaching that milestone in their careers in 2024, toobig year!)
Domenico is a lionhe never gets deterredand for us, it was really like love at first sight.
Welcome to Dolce and Gabbana.
Milano, 2015, by Anh Duong, is her self portrait wearing Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda couture.
Coco Brandolini with Stefano Gabbana (left) and Domenico Dolce (right).
It was the best experience: Anything and everything was possible.
Creatively, it was incredible.
Coco Brandolini with Stefano Gabbana (left) and Domenico Dolce (right).
I got to travel, I got to go to theMet Gala.
It was a lot of fun.
Italy is the basis of everything they do.
Firenze, 2024 by Anh Duong, and on show at the Dolce & Gabbana exhibition,From The Heart to the Hands, at Milan’s Palazzo Reale.
Those references come from Domenicos childhood, because hes the Sicilian one.
Stefano is from Milan, so its more northern Italian, a whole other aesthetic.
They always draw on their two origins, and then they meet somewhere in the middle.
Isabella Rossellini at Dolce & Gabbana’s Alta Sartoria party at the Rainbow Room in New York in April 2018.
You cant have clients arriving in all their jewelry.
Then Domenico chose to show in literally the most dangerous neighborhood in the citybecause its also the most beautiful!
It was their way of showing respect, of saying Thank you for having us.
Nothing bad happenednot a single shoe or earring went missing.
Stefano was holding him as he was crying, because Stefano always knows.
Their dynamic is really interesting.
Ive rarely seen two people know each other better.
Even before Domenico thinks about crying, Stefano already knows that hes going to do it.
Its really very sweet.
Anh Duong, Artist
My relationship with Domenico and Stefano started when I was a model.
Domenico and Stefano loved them, tooSophia Loren is one of their icons, for sure.
you might look at a Velazquez and see a king wearing his robeswhats worn is so important in portraiture.
He was getting really tired while I worked, but he was so strong that he kept going.
When Stefano and Domenico started the Alta Moda, they invited me along.
The beauty of it was that I was given total carte blanche to do whatever I wanted.
I selected dresses from the show, and they shipped them to my studio in New York.
So much these days is like Instagram: Everything is about instant, immediate gratification.
They will be in their exhibition in Milan, in the first room you enter.
Im so proud to have my work in the show.
None of us knew where it would all end up.
(Quite the opposite, in fact.)
That campaign was one of the most beautiful that I ever did in my career.
And we have stayed friends since.
Ive always thought their work was extraordinary.
Their Italianness redeemed us.
That was the last thing I wanted.
And then I found myself in my thirties wearing Dolce and Gabbana and looking exactly like that!
They told a story, with a twist, that drew me in.
They’ve been able to tell the same story in so many different ways.
With one little touch, they made the whole idea of macho tailoring funny.
I loved that suit, because it was elegant and glamorous, but it also told a story.
We have a saying in Italy: The clothes dont make the monk.
And [director] Vittorio de Sica changed it, and said, The clothesdomake the monk.
Domenico and Stefano really are like Vittorio de Sica: You see exactly what their clothes are saying.
And thats where Martin Scorceses ancestors came from.
I would imagine that for Domenico, the dream started thereprobably from seeing magazines, or watching television.
It was a little more distant, far away, than for Stefano, whos from Milan.
And he said, Never.
My mother had a little shop in Polizzi Generosa and I was hoping to have one in Milano.
He and Stefano went a little bit further than that.
