皇冠体育app

Lifestyle
/ / Fashion

Classic performance

By Chen Jie | 皇冠体育app Daily | Updated: 2016-02-05 07:32

Classic performance

Dolce & Gabbana stages the men's haute couture collection at its headquarters in Corso Venezia, the site of former Palazzo Labus, first built in Milan in 1565.

It was the first time the stage of La Scala had been given over to fashion.

"It's a great success," Alexander Pereira, director of La Scala, announced.

Paolo Besana, La Scala's director of public relations, tells 皇冠体育app Daily over lunch that at La Scala, if the audience did not like an opera, they would shout "boo" immediately, but for this show, nobody did so.

So why La Scala?

The venue is a combination of fashion and opera, which are the quintessence of Italian culture, Besana says.

"La Scala is a symbol of Italian culture," 57-year-old designer Domenico Dolce tells 皇冠体育app Daily, sharing the story of how the fashion house was inspired to do the show here.

The muse was "Biki" (Elvira Leonardi Bouyeure, 1906-99), granddaughter of composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) who wrote Turandot, Tosca and Madame Butterfly.

Puccini called her Biki and often took her to opera houses.

She saw the premiere of Turandot at La Scala in 1926.

Editor's picks
Video
11 studies show pets are good for health
British menswear reinvents itself with Beckham in the lead
UK menswear taps 皇冠体育app's market
Special
Yearender: Major events in showbiz in 2014
Food along the Silk Road
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to 皇冠体育app Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US