Milan (AFP)

The Milan Fashion Week ended on Sunday with two major events, the Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci fashion shows.

It's in a lush jungle that Dolce & Gabbana presented its new Spring-Summer 2020 collection.

The Metropol, former cinema became headquarters of the brand, was invaded by exotic plants and the podium covered with a leopard pattern.

An imaginary jungle, as transposed in Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana's native Sicily, an inexhaustible inspiration for the brand.

The models wore Saharan sand colors in jacket, shorts, combination, as ready to go on a safari. But perched on stiletto heels, red lips and colorful silk scarves in the hair.

As always stylists have given themselves to their joy by deploying their theme in exuberance: animal motifs giraffe, zebra, leopard, tiger; a variety of tropical motifs, banana leaf, palm tree, exotic fruits.

The hairstyles, the accessories, the cups, they were there to connect the collection to Sicily and the 50's Italian.

Monica Bellucci came to applaud her friends, as did actress Sofia Vergara or the top Bianca Balti.

- Fashion as an antidote -

Gucci closed the festivities of this Milanese week by inviting his guests to an enigmatic sanitized laboratory, where Alessandro Michele, artistic director of the house, intends to fabricate an antidote fashion to the social norm.

The room, bathed in a red light before the parade, made the guests lose their bearings in search of their place. And made impossible any attempt of photos with the phones, suddenly insupportably useless.

But the decor was then illuminated by a white and clinical light, revealing the first still models on treadmills making them cross the space.

Sixty white looks evoking straitjackets, clothes with straps, symbolizing fashion as a form of power constraining life, eliminating self-expression.

Black out: the room was then plunged into darkness, and after a thrill of discomfort, the lights came back on, leaving room for the models dressed in the new Gucci Spring-Summer 2020 collection, parading literally against the tide.

70's looks, men's and women's, legs of eph and large collar for suits, long monochrome dresses worn with large square glasses held by large chains.

Silhouettes inspired by work clothes, accessories borrowed from the SM world, whips, whips: as always a ground of expression where everything is possible, where fashion becomes an instrument of resistance.

Lou Doillon, Sienna Miller, Jared Leto and Iggy Pop were among the guests of the parade.

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