You have to wonder if the show was underwritten by the Walt Disney company because of the picture-perfect set designs that would not have looked out of place in one of Disneyland’s famous theme park parades. The accessories most certainly had a costumey look about them: bags in the shape of plastic castles, retro television sets or gold Cinderella carriages, shoes crafted to resemble glass slippers or covered in whorls of roses from Belle’s (of Beauty and the Beast fame) flower garden, wide headbands covered in an assortment of bejeweled brooches or vibrant blooms on black grosgrain ribbon worn by models with inexplicable two-tone hair.

In a sartorial twist the designers didn’t go the sexy form-fitting route they usually prefer and instead produces more roomy pieces in shiny tinsel lurex, cat prints in honor perhaps of the new litter of kittens in Gabbana’s life and sequins patches in the form of mice, glass slippers, candle sticks, hand mirrors, toy soldiers, tea cups… You get the picture. This silhouette choice was a good way to go to keep the youthful innocence aspect of the concept alive. It certainly worked well in the finale when all the models returned to the catwalk in cute shimmering metallic confetti baby doll dresses. And the oversized ratio of the Prince Charming pieces — the cropped military pants and the dress uniform jackets — made it look as if the models were sweetly playing dress-up with their friends.

And then, like the decisive period at the end of the last sentence of a bedtime story, came a handful of beautifully crafted black dresses in the sensual Sophia Loren style that the duo do so exceptionally well. Those are the pieces in this collection that will not fall under the spell of a one season wonder. They are the ensembles that will live happily ever after in women’s wardrobes.