Dolce & Gabbana Is Remaking Iconic '90s Pieces for the Vintage Obsessed of Today
In the new series What I Loved Yesterday, Harper's Bazaar editors highlight one standout look from the previous day at Milan Fashion Week.
When it became apparent that the younger generation cared more about archival fashion than every adult who came before them, designers were faced with a new obstacle: How would they make new clothing for customers who worship the old and the rare?
At Dolce & Gabbana, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have come up with a solution. Last season, they designed a collection with Kim Kardashian, called Ciao Kim, that featured remakes of some of their most popular pieces from the '90s and early '00s. They seem to know that on TikTok and Instagram, fashion's biggest fans love to nerd out about collecting sexy pieces of vintage D&G. This season, they picked up that idea again, which Kardashian sitting in the front row in a reworked vintage red sequined Dolce dress.
The latest collection offers customers a chance to buy a double-wool coat from 1997 or a corset from 1991 without spending hours searching in the deepest depths of Vestiaire Collective or The Real Real. There's also a label with the year the original piece is from sewn onto everything, which feels like the badge of honor Gen Z would rather sport than a nameplate of the year they were born. It's like bragging rights you can wear: This is basically from the '90s.
The collection was called “Sensuale,” and in a press release following the show was described as "a new dimension of sensuality that draws on the internal experiences that make women spontaneous and natural. An intriguing interplay of weights and volumes, iconic colours and meticulous tailored cuts bring together a collection in celebration of a woman’s authentic self." And nothing feels more authentic to Dolce & Gabbana than a stampede of models in slinky black lace numbers, oozing the '90s sex appeal they made famous.
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