Donatella Versace introduces a rebellious yet kind-hearted spirit in Versace’s Fall/Winter 2024 collection. The Italian fashion house’s creations disrupt contemporary formal tailoring with bold cuts, drapes, and embellishments, reflecting a rebel attitude. At Milan Fashion Week, models descended a zig-zagging staircase, showcasing Versace archetypes with strong, formal identities in chapters divided by color and texture.
The Versace woman embodies a duality of being prim yet sexy, showcasing conservative collared dresses and revealing gowns with confident shoulders. She flaunts matching jacket-and-skirt sets in statement prints with distinctive gold buttons, embracing sheerness on shirts and turtlenecks. Power-dressing defines her style, featuring dominant overcoats, cropped blazers, form-flattering dress pants, and bold boots. Donatella emphasizes that the man is her soulmate, a shy genius mirroring feminine style tropes. The Versace Man, breaking rules to create new ones, wears black suits, oversized coats, and shares textiles with his female counterpart. His style showcases a blend of shyness with closed coats and casual cardigans, along with glamour through shiny leather, fur-laden coats, and bold prints.
The collection focuses on disrupting contemporary formal tailoring codes with cut, drape, and embellishment, emphasizing pure lines, innovative fabrics, and considered wildness. Ornate gold patterns with an animalistic flair adorn collared jackets, button-up shirts, and dresses, adding a wild touch to the lineup.
In Donatella’s words, “This collection has a rebel attitude and a kind heart. The woman is a good girl with a wild soul. She is prim but sexy. Don’t mess with her! The man is her soulmate, a shy genius. They are breaking the rules to make new ones. The clothes take the codes of contemporary formal tailoring and disrupt them with cut, drape, and embellishment. The collection focuses on pure lines, innovative fabrics, considered wildness. This is us. This is Versace!”
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