Dolce & Gabbana
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Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been called the arbiters of the sexuality of women’s fashion:
With their fascination for the culture and working-class heritage of southern Italy, they found romance in kerchiefs, slips, grandmotherly sweaters and mournful black. They made the gritty, hardscrabble, rural Sicilian life seem enchanting, creating a kind of peasant chic that — depending upon one’s politics — is either admiring or condescending.
Still hot after 20 years in the passion biz