DOLCE & GABBANA'S GREATEST HITS

Dolce & Gabbana returned to its roots of 'Sicilian-ity, Sartorial-ity, Sensuality' for its Autumn Winter 2010 collection. And it was one of its best yet.

With a tribute show to its greatest hits in what eerily felt like a send-off, they presented the straight black skirts, velvet dresses, bustiers and bodies that referenced the label's own archive. A gold coin embroidered bustier harked back to Christy Turlington circa 1991, and let's not forget the blazers.

69 models flooded the catwalk for its finale, each wearing a different cut and style of the Little Black Blazer. This eponymous item is Dolce & Gabbana's bread and butter and its best selling item in store. Yet it has fallen foul of the catwalk in recent years, perhaps for not being interesting enough to showcase the designers talent. But modelled only with black satin knickers, if the audience had seen nothing else but these, it would have left happy.

Dolce & Gabbana really know how to entertain the crowd. As guests were seated, the many TV screens above the catwalk showed the live action going on backstage; a model running in to place, a final dab of lip gloss, feet being wedged into heels... As well-versed as we are at knowing what the backstage scene is like, it is still riveting nonetheless.

Before Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana took their bow, a video tribute was played of their 30 atelier staff who have been working on this collection tirelessly since December. To a soundtrack of Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor's Come What May, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.