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Donatella Versace channels 1990s joy in bright spring/summer collection

The designer, determined to have fun, spiked every detail with party spirit in collection presented at Milan castle

Donatella Versace wore a cherry-red trouser suit for a preview of her collection in her design studio, and a minidress in the same colour for her catwalk show. Models walked as if they had knocked back a tequila shot at the very moment their song came on in the club: heavy-lashed eyes fixed ahead, a fast shimmy to the dancefloor. The silhouette of a straight, above-the-knee skirt resting low on the hips, teamed with a tiny cardigan fastened with one or two central buttons, recalled an era when the wardrobe of Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green in Friends was, for a still-young generation X, a primary power dressing reference.

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