Eye on Print: Dolce & Gabbana

David Hellqvist casts a glance over the Italian duo’s signature seasonal SS14 print

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have nurtured their fascination with Sicily for a few seasons now, each time looking at slightly different aspects of the island’s culture and history. Attending their shows makes you want to travel there for the sights, food, wine and art. The current SS14 collection looks closer at Sicilian mythology, with Greek origins still visible in the island’s impressive amphitheatres at Valle dei Templi of Agrigento and the Tempio di Apollo of Syracuse. Representing the ‘modern day Ulysses’, ordinary Sicilians were hand-picked to walk the collection, wearing prints representing the faces of Zeus and Apollo, as well as the antique coins of cities like Catania, Syracuse, Taormina and Messina.