Bottega Veneta goes for E.T. chic as Madonna pops into D&G [Video]

Milan Fashion Week came to a close on Saturday with its share of surprises, not least an unlikely source of inspiration for Bottega Veneta’s much-anticipated evening show.

“For this show, I took as my starting point the scene from Spielberg’s film ‘E.T.’, when the mother opens the closet to reveal a world of stuffed animals…” Bottega Veneta’s artistic director Matthieu Blazy explained backstage.

“The surprise of an imaginary world, the world of childhood, where everything is possible, where everything is a game, a joy, an adventure,” he said.

Blazy sought to recreate children trying on their parents’ clothing, or even the first day of school, “when parents have prepared the perfect outfit for their child, who comes back with everything upside down.”

That resulted in dresses just a bit too big, outfits with one leg in pants, the other in a skirt, superimpositions or creases.

As for the dress embroidered with matches?

“It’s the object of childhood’s …