Versace: Milan Fashion Week

By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director at Milan Fashion Week Published: 6:17PM GMT twenty-six February 2010

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With the blast bark of a Harley revving up, Versace kick-started the biker-chic pick up at Milan Fashion Week.

The mood was souped-up, slicked-up Hells Angels. The models wore skin-tight, mirror-gloss "leathers", reflecting the chrome work of a "chopper".

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Moto-cross jackets with reinforced, elasticated panels at spinal column and the elbows, came with lead micro-skirts in pink, cobalt, purple and acid-yellow.

Other jackets, featured zip-off sleeves, and were ragged with matching, wrapover mini-skirts, zipped, or unzipped opposite the thighs.

Skintight jeans were in a patchwork of "dirty" denim and dark-brown leather, unzipped at the ankle to exhibit the multi-straps of gladiator boots or "cage" shoes.

For evening, Versace throttled down in to a smoother, but no less sexier mood, with figure-hugging gowns in petrol-blue, chrome-yellow, shocking-pink and traffic-light shades of red and green, with gilded zips and clear "cats eyes" snaking down the seams and necklines.

At the close of the show, in the Teatro Versace in downtown Milan, a mirrored "container" in the centre of the room, rose up in to the roof to exhibit all the models in a radiant tableau.

The immature British designer, Christopher Kane, 26, who was "discovered" by Donatella Versace, whilst still a tyro at Central Saint Martins conform college in London, was between the front-row guests.

Kane will show his pick up for Versaces younger, freeing line, Versus, on Sunday.