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.

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
