Dolce and Gabbana designs are groundbreaking

From haute couture to street chic, fashion designers have been influencing our ensembles since the time of Maria Antoinette's personal designer, Rose Bertin, during the 18th century.

Among brand names with royalty-like standings such as Chanel, Valentino and Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana (D&G) have grasped this status just as firmly.

This Italian label has imprinted its everlasting footprint in the concrete of our world's top cities such as New York, Milan, London and Paris.

"D&G is sexy, provocative. It is a mix of lace, corsets and sex," said Ashley Falcon, writer for Marie Clarie Magazine. "It is sexy and classy; you need to be a confident woman to wear it."

Domenico Dolce was brought up around fashion, being his father was a tailor. Dolce eventually moved to Milan, Italy to pursue a career in fashion at one of Milan's famous design studios. Fashion gave Dolce the opportunity to express himself. "As a designer, I see dreams as my job," Dolce said during an interview with Bruce Weber (one of the world's top photographers) for Interview Magazine. "I have to capture what people are feeling and translate that into fashion and even provide what people want before they consciously know they want it."

Stefano Gabbana however, grew up wanting to go into advertising. It wasn't until later that Gabanna lost his love for design and acknowledged his interest in fashion that had been trying to break it's way through the surface.

Dolce and Gabbana first met assisting at the same atelier in Milan. They instantly clicked; Dolce helped Gabbana's creativity through fashion grow.

"It was ultimately Domenico who taught me the most about fashion" said Gabbana during an interview with Weber for Interview Magazine. "As time went on while I was learning about it, I fell in love with it-with designing, with making clothes, with dressing people."

Like an instant drug addiction, Dolce and Gabbana both fell in love with one individual in particular … the Queen of Pop herself, Madonna. Dolce and Gabbana designed 1,500 costumes for Madonna's "The Girlie Show" tour of 1993. Madonna soon became the new face of D&G.

"To have Madonna in our campaign is a dream come true," said designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana during an interview for the Times Live.

After making their first big hit at Milan's "New Talent" fashion show in October of 1985, D&G have been groundbreaking ever since.

Gracing the runways every season with breathtaking new styles, D&G have become the inspiration for new designers everywhere. "This year's winter collection looks more classic and elegant," said Emma Heinlen, sophomore majoring in Elementary Education.

From something as simplistic as a leather bangle and gem-stoned stilettos, to that satin dress and woolen blazer with an underlying silk panty set, D&G have become the requirement in the closets of many.

"I'm really into their glasses … they are chic," said Kristine Petrizzi, senior majoring in Physical Therapy. "My favorite part is their clothes. If I could, I would be in a D&G fashion show every day."

D&G are most certainly a designing duo that will forever be provokingly promiscuous and evolutionarily fearless.