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02nd Mar 2015

Viva la Mamma! Dolce & Gabbana celebrate motherhood in Milan

The accessory du jour was... a bouncing baby on your hip

Katie Mythen-Lynch

Dolce and Gabbana celebrated Mother’s Day two weeks early yesterday with a stomping AW15/16 show in Milan.

Viva La Mamma had a distinctly 1950’s feel, with the clothes celebrating the hourglass shape, all whittled waists and wiggle dresses.

Model Bianca Banti, who is six months pregnant, earned a round of applause as she sashayed her bump down the runway in pale pink, but the most stylish accessory of the day was a baby, with many of the models, dressed in variations of the black slip dress, carrying bemused infants dressed in white down the catwalk.

Onlookers reported that, astonishingly, there were no tantrums at the event, and all the tiny models were extremely well behaved, despite the excitement.

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Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana paid tribute to mothers everywhere in the show notes, which included the following verse:

“Hurray for Mum”

Edoardo Bennato

Hurray for mum

she’s fond of that skirt that’s a bit long

so elegantly Fifties-style

always so straightforward


Hurray for mum

hurray for women with both feet on the ground

the smiling beauty queens of the postwar years

with their hair just like hers!


Angels are dancing rock ‘n’ roll now

you’re not a dream, you’re real

hurray for mum because

if I talk to you about her, you’re not jealous


Hurray for mum

she’s fond of that skirt that’s a bit long

always busy and always absolutely sure

sometimes a bit severe

hurray for mum

hurray for the fairytale of the Fifties

so far away and yet so modern

and so magic


Angels are dancing rock ‘n’ roll now

it’s not a jukebox, it’s a real orchestra

hurray for mum because if I talk to you

you’re not jealous


Bang bang the alarm goes off

bang bang you have to go to school

bang bang just a minute

to carry on dreaming


Hurray for mum

hurray for rules and good manners

the ones I never managed to learn

perhaps because of rock ‘n’ roll

 

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