From Vogue UK
DONATELLA VERSACE brought Milan Fashion Week to a close last night with a show that put a slightly more feminine refinement on the city's current hot and heavy obsession with sex.
While some of her male counterparts have been lacing their models into skin-tight leather tubes and slashing skirts to barely below the knickerline, Donatella's vibrant use of colour and seriously curvy silhouette was less raunchy but just as sexy as you'd expect from the house of Versace. Britney Spears took the main spotlight, cheered into her front row seat (having been booed in New York), in a sheer, second-skin Versace robe, to watch the latest from both the main line and its little sister, Versus.
And there was plenty to see: clingy fuchsia trouser suits, mini frock coats in lime, tight purple leather mini skirts and multicoloured prints on strapless jersey dresses. Behind the Versace super glamour that produced the standard run of show-stopping, plunging chiffon red carpet gowns, however, there was a hardness this season that revealed a tough new attitude. Trousers came pared at the ankle or featured combat pockets high on the hip and the innocence of a sparkling, chiffon baby doll was belied by a shiny chain mail under-slip.
"It's a new me," Donatella told the Daily Telegraph. "It's tough glamour. Strong, but sophisticated. I want to show that women don't need to wear a boring suite to look important."