Major national and foreign guests are starting to arrive at Bari Airport. Direction: Borgo Egnazia. It is here, among olive trees and trulli, that VIPs will stop to take part in the most anticipated event of the season: the Dolce&Gabbana fashion show in Puglia. After the Maison Gucci show at Castel del Monte last year, from Friday the 7th, the heart of Puglia will return to the catwalk of another great fashion house. “Puglia captured our imaginations with the same surge of love we experienced in Venice, Capri, Syracuse and every other place on our Grand Tour,” they write on Facebook. Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.
Grand Tour
The last leg of the Grand Tour of Italy, which the two stylists started in 2012, starting from Taormina, the event will open on Friday 7 with a welcome cocktail at Borgo Egnazia. Instead, the next day at the Spazio Ulivi Pettolecchia, a presentation of High Jewelry creations will take place. Then, on the 9th and 10th, in the armored historic centers of the cities of the valley d’Itria, high fashion shows (women’s collection) e High tailoring (men’s collection) respectively announcement Alberobello and Ostuni. It all culminates on Tuesday the 11th with a big celebratory party in Masseria San Domenico di Savelletri.
The arrival of the guests was preceded by a yacht of two Sicilian stylists, a giant 65 meters long and cost about 50 million dollars. euro moored in the port of Cala Ponte, in Polignano a Mare.
However, today, Wednesday 5, the first VIPs arrive in Puglia directly from Hollywood. This is the case Jennifer Audrey Coolidge interpreter of the ruthless Karen Calhoun a series “Observer”. We are also waiting for Sharon Stone and Kim Kardashian.
Oscar winner Helen Mirren, who was already in Syracuse last year and now adopted by Puglia, is also rumored to be attending the private D&> event. And to stay in Italy, the model must also be among the guests. Bianca Balti and singer Blanco. However, due to some dissatisfaction with the two stylists, the journalist (from Puglia) and fashionista Anna Dello Russo may be absent.
controversy
Indeed, some pain in the abdomen is enough. While the presence of the yacht and the event itself wowed locals and tourists alike, not everyone greeted the fashion giants the same way. Bye first videos begin to circulate on D&> social media who perpetuate the Apulian landscapes, welcome Dolce and Gabbana and two street vendors from the city of Trulli, who, in an ironic way and joking over the names of stylists, they call themselves “Amaro and Gabbato“. And they speak for all street vendors of “thursday market, forcibly disenfranchised.”
Amaro and Gabbato say that the market of Alberobello existed only a few years ago in the very places where the House is currently building its imposing structures. And it is on this aspect that both focus their attention: “Dear Dolce & Gabbana, all you need is a nod to open all the doors of the building. Where today this thin floor can be subjected to any load, we went there, of course, not on a yacht, but on modest vans worth several thousand euros, which, however, contain the dignity of workers.”