Editor’s Notice: Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana introduced their first Dolce & Gabbana assortment in 1985. To mark their fortieth 12 months in style, and as a part of Vogue Runway’s ongoing efforts to doc the historical past of style reveals, we’re closing out 2025 by including two newly digitized reveals from their ’90s heyday to the location. This fall 1996 assortment was introduced in Milan on March 6, 1996.
Months earlier than Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana celebrated their tenth anniversary with a scrumptious fall assortment and a espresso desk guide, Vogue named them a part of “Trend’s New Institution” alongside Marc Jacobs, Helmut Lang, John Galliano, Tom Ford, Isaac Mizrahi, and Michael Kors. “In 10 years,” the journal wrote, “the designers have gone from being soulful underdogs obsessive about Sicilian shrouds and lingerie to intelligent businessmen who know tips on how to stroll the high quality line between trendiness and accessibility.”
They hit the candy spot certainly for fall 1996 with cherry, lemon, and strawberry prints (Isabella Rossellini wore a costume from this collection to the 1997 Golden Globes), which had been blended with florals and animal motifs (that are virtually neutrals within the D&G universe).
Previous the fruity dessert was the principle course: innerwear as outerwear, however handled extra romantically than previously. Madonna, a buddy of the home, was name-checked within the soundtrack lyrics, however this supportwear was worlds away from the pointed stridency of Madonna’s Blonde Ambition-era cone bras by Jean Paul Gaultier. Fashions wore flowers of their upswept hair, and rose prints may need been pulled from an old-timey wallpaper, whereas homey knits and textural tweed added a country contact, though lining a tweed coat with a silky print was a relatively subtle transfer. With this assortment, Dolce and Gabbana confirmed {that a} softer tackle intercourse can promote, too.
