Showstoppers S/S 07: Versace

It's officially a miracle: I'm in love with a Versace collection. Usually I am near to appawled by the trashy and cheap attempts by Donatella Versace to produce a sexy line, or I am bored by her attempts to create a sexy approachable line. But this time, she nailed. The collection was sexy and actually wearable. Plus, it had some - for Versace standards at least - innovative twists. Just to immedtaily prove the sexiness of this collection, here's a drop dead gorgeous close-up of Tanya Dziahileva.

The collection, like many collection, revolved around the eighties. Both in shape, colour and in print. Prominent eighties volumes have been toned down for modern times and brown is making a return. Prints you could almost call simple, yet very present, definetly hinted the eighties and even the sixties in this Versace collection.

Another reference to the eighties and the sixties in one is the bathing suit. A corset like, very high waist psit of short with a very cute and simple bikinitop. It puts your body right back into shape, because you can clearly see the lines of construction in this ensemble.

Construction was something that was very recurrant in this collection. Such as in this really great, hotpink dress. There's a construstion that shapes up the breasts here. It looks a lot like the metal armor used in Galliano's latest couture collection for Dior, but actually, it weighs nothing: it's plastic. So you will look and feel great wearing this.

The last dress I am showing you has such a beautiful green colour. And it perfectly shows why this is not a Versace show built on cliches. What we know of Versace's dresses is that they are almost always exactly the same: plunging necklines, too much glitter and sequins and over the hill splits. Now, this dress does have the split, but the rest is all missing. Just like all dresses in the collection there are no sequins and just like most dresses, no plunging necklines. Yet, this dress is sexy as hell. Keep up the good work, Donatella!