Dolce & Gabbana: 30th Anniversary!

 

This year marks a quarter of a century since Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana ? designer fashion's most famous pairing ? showed for the first time. Back then, the industry was far from the corporate juggernaut it is today. Never would Dolce and Gabbana have imagined they'd go on to exert such influence over the way women (and indeed men) dress ? from the high street, where the type of exuberant and unashamedly sexualized clothing their designs exemplify are ubiquitous, to the upper echelons of Hollywood.

 Dolce & Gabbana has been championed by blonde bombshell Scarlett Johansson, who became the face of the label's first make-up campaign, as well as by Monica Bellucci, also a poster girl in her time, Isabella Rossellini and Katy Perry. Then there's Victoria Beckham, of course, with whom the designers have been known to enjoy a spot of (presumably light) lunch, and last but certainly not least, Madonna. In May, they are launching a new range of sunglasses, called MDG, in collaboration with La Ciccone, who has been photographed by Steven Klein to promote the line.

(Here are many of Dolce & Gabbana's best Work!)