Versace, spring 2010

Vivid pastels, geometric prints, baroque curlicues, short-short skirts, and slinky, sexy chain mail: Where else could this be but Versace? "I loved the idea of that fantasyland," she said. talking about Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (which comes out next March). Donatella might have spent the last few seasons concentrating on making her collection look grown-up, but now that so many others are making the most of thighlengths, busy prints, and glitter , it's best to drop all that and show them how it's done her way. She did it classily, seeming for the first time to have overcome any tentativeness about reveling in the territory her brother famously carved out. In their tiny pelmet skirts, jazzily printed dresses, and super-fitted suitings, the girls were all legs and glossy hair.