
If there is a world-wide economic recession going on, the Dolce and Gabbana woman is blithely unaware; she’s too busy lounging around in her designer silk pajama dresses, maybe with Hugh Hefner. There was a little bit of everything in the Spring/Summer 2009 collection shown in Milan. There were the silk pajamas that were the highlight of the men’s collection a few months back, transformed into dresses and pantsuits. These aren’t your grandmother’s silk PJs though as they’re more Ibizi than Ihop early-bird special. They have their devices, of course, and they spell them out up front, leaving nothing in doubt: A preshow video named the collection “Pigiama Barocco.” That meant classic gentlemen’s silk pajamas, spotted or striped, with lots of bejeweling in the models’ hair and on brooches, for starters. Big poufy skirts came into it, too, and tiered-lace cardigans, and then gilded brocades that took a sideways segue into some of those flat, exaggerated geometric constructions (big Minnie Mouse-ear sleeves, in this case) that are popping up all over.Story Covered by:myitthings