Dolce & Gabbana’s Fall show celebrated moms

Dolce & Gabbana’s fall 2015 show paid tribute to mothers. “Viva Mamma!” the show notes read. And though some of the designs—dresses printed with kid scribbles à la Angelina Jolie’s wedding veil—might have been too heavy-handed in their tribute, the collection was an ode to the elegance, the beauty, and the resilience of the mom.

The backdrop for the runway show—revealed dramatically to audible “awws”—was a tableau featuring gorgeous moms and their kids. (Props to the moms who held their babies the length of the show, and to the baby who clapped every time the audience clapped.)

When a very pregnant Bianca Balti, a longtime muse of the house, walked the runway in an elegant dusty rose sheath, the audience erupted in applause. They cooed when a model in an ornate embroidered dress walked the runway with her bouncing baby in tow.

Set to a playlist that was a mix of kids’ songs and soulful R&B tributes to moms, some felt the show took a gimmick too far (babies as props?). For the most part, though, the show was undeniably cute, and at times, even, emotional, without becoming too sentimental.

And Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana must have had the fashion gods looking down on them this morning because, despite sending some of the least predictable little models down the runway, not one baby cried. We’d love to know what North West would have to say about that.