ROME POSTCARD: THEY CAME, THEY SAW

The first presentation in Dolce & Gabbana's annual couture extravaganza—a display of its fine-jewelry line Alta Gioielleria—was supposed to take place on a summer's eve at Hadrian's Villa, in Tivoli, near Rome.

- D. T. Max

At 6 P.M., the gods sent a rare thunderstorm. Hadrian hasn't had a roof on his house for almost fifteen hundred years, so the designers delayed the glittering affair, waiting for a reversal of fortune.

The label's clients, almost five hundred of whom had gathered from more than two dozen countries, were happy to wait. Back at the Hotel de la Ville, four Floridian members of the hard core drank champagne and Hugo spritzes and eyed the sky in their respective Dolce getups: Suzy Buckley wore a purple sequin gown. Krista Rosenberg was in silver sequins, from a 2024 collection. Lydia Touzet had on a coppery number bought at the New York boutique. Eilah Campbell-Beavers wore a sequin ensemble, too, but crowned it with a tiara. The husbands wore—well, who cares?