Milan Fashion Week: Madonna Makes Veiled Entrance to Dolce&Gabbana for Show Celebrating her 1990s Heyday

Celebrities swarmed Milan Fashion Week on the last big day of runway shows on Saturday, sending crowds of adoring fans from venue to venue.

Madonna sat in a front-row seat at Dolce & Gabbana, along with Naomi Campbell and Victoria De Angelis of Maneskin. Her bandmate, Maneskin frontman Damiano David, showed up at Diesel, one of the season's hottest tickets, across town. Jacob Elordi took a seat on a bunny-shaped bean bag chair to take in the Bottega Veneta show.

Highlights from Milan Fashion Week's mostly womenswear previews for next spring and summer on Saturday.

lce & Gabbana Celebrate Madonna

Madonna attempted a semi-stealth entrance to the Dolce & Gabbana runway show draped in a black veil for a runway show referencing her 1990s heyday and celebrating the cone bra.

Models in bleach-blonde wigs strutted in Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana's signature corsets and fitted jackets, each featuring the aggressively feminine cone bra, in a collection that notes said "pays homage to an ironic and powerful female figure."

Madonna wasn't cited specifically, but the stars of the Milan designers and pop star have been aligned ever since they made costumes for her 1993 Girlie Show tour. The tour promoted Madonna's "Erotica" album launched alongside her taboo-breaking coffee table book, "Sex."

"Madonna has always been our icon. It's thanks to her that a lot of things in our lives changed,'' the desigers said in a note.

The collection, dubbed "Italian Beauty," perfectly captured that moment in time. Cone bras peeked out of cropped jackets with a pencil skirt, garters swung from corsets and coats sculpted the body. Floral prints returned, accenting a color scheme of black, nude, red and white. Oversized cross earrings finished the looks. Heels were unapologetically high.

After taking their bows, the designers walked down the runway to greet their guest of honor. Madonna, still covered by the Chantilly long lace veil fastened by a gold and crystal crown, stood to embrace them both.

Bottega Veneta taps wonder

Bottega Veneta's sometimes misproptioned, sometimes crinkled, always provocative collection explores the intersection between the real world and fantasy, adulthood and childhood. Creative director Matthieu Blazy's meaning is simple: To delight.

"We need beauty. We need joy,'' Blazy said backstage. "We need that experimental act. It is also an act of freedom."

In this universe, a dental clinic receptionist wears a skirt with a trouser on just one leg, which Blazy asserts as a playful act. In a familiar scene, a well-dressed father carries his daughter's pink and purple school bag. "Do we like the bag? I don't know. Does it tell a story? Yes,'' Blazy said.

Each detail is deliberate, from a flat collar on a dress shaped like bunny ears to big colorful raffia wigs, even if their ultimate purpose is just for fun. Crinkled clothes signify a childn's attempt to dress up, only to be ruined by the end of the day.

Blazy's characters carried what appeared to be ordinary plastic grocery bags, but which were made out of nylon and leather – part of the brand's ongoing technological innovations. The faux plastic bags signified everyday life, and were accompanied by brand's trademark woven bags, one for a violin, another a wine bottle.