It was a traffic-light colour scheme to get any fashionista hot under the collar: red, yellow and green thigh-high boots sauntering down the catwalk at Versace’s show Friday. The catwalk was a blood red runway onto which the models — including Paris native Aya Jones, wearing an iconic silver choker which spelt out Versace in capital letters — descended from above via a see-through staircase. Well not here: Donatella Versace splashed her family name in green, yellow and red across jersey tops, leather jackets and skirts in designs the press release described as having been “remixed by a DJ”. There were cocktail dresses embroidered in vivid crystals, a black skirt with a zip up the back from bottom to top — not to be used under the influence of alcohol — and black dresses slashed with cut-outs, some lined with colour.
