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Kim Kardashian culls Dolce&Gabbana archives for Milan show


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2022 Sep 25, 20:48, MILAN
Kim Kardashian, center, is flanked by Domenico Dolce, right, and Stefano Gabbana at the end of the Dolce & Gabbana women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion show presented in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo)

Kim Kardashian took Milan by storm on Saturday, curating a new collection for Dolce&Gabbana that took inspiration from 20 years of archival looks.

It was a day of debuts in Milan, including Maximilian Davis, a 27-yeaer-old British designer with Afro-Caribbean roots, at the creative helm of Salvatore Ferragamo and Filipino American designer Rhuigi Villasenor at Bally, as the brand returns to the runway for the first time in 20 years.

Some highlights from the fourth day of Milan Fashion Week previews of mostly womenswear for next spring and summer:

KIM KARDASHIAN AND DOLCE & GABBANA: THE BACKSTORY

Kim Kardashian’s love of Dolce & Gabbana goes way back, and the affection showed in her curation of their latest collection, drawing on archival looks from 1987-2007.

When Kardashian and her sisters owned a store, she borrowed her father’s credit card to buy a bunch of D&G dresses, jeans and belts before her paycheck came in.

Even the family dogs were named Dolce and Gabbana. Gabbana was a black labrador, Dolce a tiny chihuahua.


A model wears a creation as part of the Dolce & Gabbana women's Spring Summer 2023 collection presented in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo)
A model wears a creation as part of the Dolce & Gabbana women's Spring Summer 2023 collection presented in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo)

But no matter how hard she tried, even deploying her mother, Kris Jenner, to help make her case, the designers refused to open their archives. “The past is the past,” Domenico Dolce explained. “We try to go ahead with the new generation.”

That is, until Kardashian proved she had the right stuff.

When Kourtney Kardashian married Travis Barker in Italy, social media swarmed with the vintage Dolce & Gabbana dresses she and her sisters wore. They were all from Kim Kardashian’s private collection, which she accrued with the help of a book of more than 100 desired Dolce & Gabbana looks she and her stylist compiled years before.

“Everything looked insane. It was so fun,” Kardashian said of the wedding looks. “I think (the designers) were surprised I came with all my own stuff and I had been collecting it for years.”

Kim Kardashian, center, is flanked by Domenico Dolce, right, and Stefano Gabbana at the end of the Dolce & Gabbana women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion show presented in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo)
Kim Kardashian, center, is flanked by Domenico Dolce, right, and Stefano Gabbana at the end of the Dolce & Gabbana women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion show presented in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo)

Dolce said the wedding photos persuaded them to dig into the archives, and he approached Kardashian about the project.

“We were afraid that the vintages dresses would look old. Instead, they were still contemporary,” Dolce said.

And so the new Spring-Summer 2023 collection was born, with the designers selecting looks from the past that they loved, many with memories attached working with models like Linda Evangelista and Monica Bellucci. Kardashian curated from there.

“After all these years, this is all of the stuff we would wear today,” Kardashian said. “As a designer, I would just think that is so cool, to see everyone trying to emulate the looks. And why not do a full collection, obviously with some new pieces in there, but just reimagined in a way that we would wear it today, which is so similar to how it was shot and worn back then.”

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