Milan Fashion Week: Dolce & Gabbana Fall/Winter 2022 Menswear Collection

Dolce & Gabbana presented another stellar show for its Fall/Winter 2022 menswear collection.

Fashion house DOLCE & GABBANA presented its Fall/Winter 2022.23 Menswear Collection, which pays homage to music and the metaverse. It took place at Milan Fashion Week on January, 15^th. The silhouette of the collection is defined by new proportions and geometries, created with technical fabrics and prints. Some of the pieces feature the unique graffiti art of Rocco Pezzella, also known as Boche. The collection also fuses the raw energy of the street with the world of technology.

Moreover, the collection featured mostly oversized, including sweaters, sweatshirts, coats, pants, shorts as well as high-necked shirts and tailored blazers in metallic, leather and teddy (studded) textures.

Moreover, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana exploded their silhouettes into enormous proportions. From tracksuits to biker jackets and tuxedos, the dimensions reached circumferences that would have made Leigh Bowery blush. Whether jackets were blown up, the shoulder was the erogenous zone: deconstructed, demanding and daring.

“We’re challenging ourselves,” said Gabbana. “We’re questioning everything we’ve been used to. Things are changing, and we welcome that change; we want to experience the new, which makes us evolve and move forward.” Dolce chimed in: “Staying put in our comfort zone feels not-so- comfortable anymore.”

This runway show, which is actually the first one of the year, was a great show. Not only was it in fashion, but also in music. The special guest was the rapper Machine Gun Kelly, who was also the main model of the collection.

Machine Gun Kelly opened the Dolce & Gabbana show in a white suit framed in big, spiky studs. Brooding, pierced and ghostly, he did a spin on the runway before he pressed play on a DJ mixer and disappeared, only to reemerge in a swirly, multi-coloured sequined suit for a live performance of “My Ex’s Best Friend”. But Kelly – newly engaged to Megan Fox – wasn’t just the show singer. His dress sense – inspired by an idiosyncratic musical style, which, according to the designers, “mixes the logic of rap with punk, emo and alternative music” – partly informed a megaphonic collection devoted to the generations who follow him.