| 'There are so many things I love about Donatella and her clothing. I think it is strong, it's sexy, empowering and she's a powerful woman in the industry and I respect that,' the 22-year-old star told Reuters before Versace showed her autumn/winter 2003/4 collection.
Donatella, who took over the design house from her brother Gianni after he was shot dead in 1997, showed both the younger, diffusion label Versus and the top-line Versace collection back to back, with hair back-combed and big in the first and sleek and stylish in the second. Color was kept to a minimum at Versace, a surprise at the house known for its head-turning brights, but it did not skimp on the revealing cuts red-carpet regulars love it for.
Joining the fashion fest's fever for all things mini and clingy, teeny skirts and drainpipe trousers in creams and caramels were matched with crocodile-skin spikes and zips and tassels on anything that could take their weight. Underwear as outwear ruled the last part of the show as it had in the spring/summer collection, with long-cut corsets straight out of Aguilera's dressing-up box that curved round the bottom fanning out into long, lacey skirts split to the crotch.
The 1980s time-warp came on more strongly in the Versus line, which was chock-full of bright turquoise blues and mustard golds chopped up into bold prints on leggings, skinny mini-dresses, furs and towering stilettos.
Aguilera, her platinum hair ringleted and loose and wearing a dark pink Versace dress, sat quietly as models strutted round the pod-shaped catwalk, turning once in a while to whisper to a friend. 'This collection...is all about Christina,' Versace said of the pop idol who set men's hearts racing in her latest video 'Dirrty' crawling through a mud-wrestling ring in knickers and bra.
'High pants, low waists and very sexy, very strong, leather. I wish the models could dance like her and it would be perfect,' Versace added before the show, lounging back in a red-leather armchair surrounded by roses. But despite the champagne, the stars, the strobes and the army of supermodels, applause was sparse and the audience was largely unimpressed. 'It was disappointing. Some of the dresses were pretty but it was mainly just a lot of tights,' one U.S. writer said, leaving the show's warehouse venue on the outskirts of the fashion capital.
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