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In this large-format black-and-white book, the great masters of Italian and international reportage are contrasted with the most important fashion photographers, who have interpreted Dolce & Gabbana Black from behind their lenses since the 1980s. These include Helmut Newton, Inez & Vinoodh, Giuseppe Leone, Enzo Brai, Salvo Alibrio, Sergio Larrain, Bruno Barbey, Ellen von Unwerth, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Fabrizio Ferri, and Juergen Teller. In these photographic masterpieces, which range from advertising campaigns to the most iconic editorials, the stars of cinema, entertainment, and fashion featuring Monica Bellucci and Isabella Rossellini among others will alternate with suggestive portraits of ordinary people, some never before seen by the general public and published here for the first time, in a constant dialog that puts Dolce & Gabbana Black at the center.

In October 1985, in the New Talents show at Milan Fashion Week, the world caught its first glimpse of Dolce&Gabbana and a legend was born. Forty years later, the illustrious designers decided to release these four volumes showcasing the legacy of their house. The four books collected in an elegant slipcase allow the reader to travel to the source of Dolce&Gabbana creativity: the moodboards. Personally crafted by the designers season after season, they are the true protagonists of this gorgeous project and have shaped every womenswear collection since the first fashion show. With supporting text, personally written by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the volumes open the doors of their realm of inspiration, revealing the secrets that have never been seen outside their atelier. The four volumes also present the best editorials and advertising photos that have nourished Dolce&Gabbana creativity, becoming iconic imagery of an age.

Dolce&Gabbana s new book reveals one of the maison's most iconic elements: lace. A symbol of sensuality and mystery, in its published images this material evokes an intimate and sophisticated feel, defining a new visual language that enhances beauty and celebrates the uniqueness of the body. Lace represents subtle suggestions and the art of the unsaid: its transparency, it reveals and conceals, it s a caress on the skin, it s a mystery that invites discovery. Through iconic photos, from editorials and advertising campaigns and a series of new shots created specifically for this project, the book offers the reader a refined aesthetic vision that arouses feeling and leaves plenty to the imagination.

A book where art and fashion merge in a blend of knowledge, passion, creativity, and beauty. The pure distillation of the Dolce&Gabbana spirit.Since the 1990s, Dolce&Gabbana has consistently taken inspiration from the world of art, drawing upon the evocative power of painting and sculpture to enrich its collections. This dialogue with the artistic world became even deeper and more structured with the launch of Alta Moda in 2012 and Alta Sartoria in 2015. These two key chapters in the fashion house’s history established an even closer and more conscious connection between sartorial creations and great masterpieces of art, celebrating their uniqueness, excellence, and timeless beauty in, for example, a dress with Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, or a cape embroidered with Caravaggio’s Basket of Fruit.This book richly illustrates all the artistic sources that inspire the fashion house: from the great Italian Renaissance masters, such as Leonardo, Botticelli, Titian, and Raphael, to the various contemporary movements, like Dalí’s dreamlike surrealism, Jackson Pollock’s Action Painting, Basquiat’s street art, and Keith Haring’s graffiti.