subject: The Glittering Fish-scale Holograms [print this page] Whoever claimed that fishing is a sport you start when giving up on sex zentai hadn't seen Dolce & Gabbana's super-shiny dresses with fish writhing over the taut black surface. ''The movement of the sea is very sexy,'' said Stefano Gabbana backstage, undulating his hands into female curves. The painted fish on lacquered fabric, the glittering fish-scale holograms and three-dimensional effects of the watery deep were inspired by a vacation watching fish swim in the wake of a boat. Like such shoals, Dolce & Gabbana's women are spotted mainly at night - their slinky dresses costume zentai catching the light and terrific for entrance-making. Even the signature knitwear was dramatic: tiny shrunken cardigans worn above corset dress rising high. The problem with the show was that all this was standard Dolce & Gabbana stuff. We have seen before the shiny dresses and the tailoring standing away from the body. So the baggy pants, part rapper, part sporty, cut wide and slung low, were new? Only on this runway. It is always dangerous to fish in other people's waters. And Dolce's pants and long cargo skirt looked like a take on last season's Gucci. Now why would a house famous for its leather send out suits in that stiff, spongy, scuba diver's spider man costume Neoprene? Because sport is hip. Trussardi had dresses with racing stripes, biker shorts in leather or even pony skin, and cashmere polo shirts with color-block sleeves. Team colors included bubble-gum pink through mint green to turquoise. It was all too insistent, like being condemned to watch only a TV sports channel. But it threw up some good individual pieces.
