Donatella Versace has presented her spring-summer 2023 collection

Fashion week 24/09/2022
K. Hernandez

Billed as a gothic experience, Versace's invitation came wrapped in a bunch of black candles emblazoned with the house's logo in gold. Arriving at one of the vast suburban show spaces increasingly favored by Milan's designers, the candles multiplied a thousandfold.

Lined up and lit inside a glass box on a purple catwalk, as if it were a mausoleum wedding, they set the mood for Donatella Versace's 'Dark Gothic Goddess' show, which opened with a holy trinity: Gigi Hadid, Mona Tougaard and Rianne Van Rompaey decked out in asymmetrically cut black gowns, some with priestly hoods, others with assertive slits down the front. They were Donatella's dark angels.

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