Utilizing their fascination for traditional rural fashions, the designing dream team of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana has captured the fashion world by storm. Since their company's inception in 1982 to the present, Dolce & Gabbana has made Italian fashion look so wearable.

This book, which celebrates their first 10 years in business, is a collection of past ad campaigns and a plethora of celebrities that normally would make a coffee-table book about fashion appealing. With a foreword by Isabella Rossellini, and appearances by many top name fashion models, Dolce & Gabbana's vision of incorporating Sicilian (Dolce is orginally from Palermo, Sicily) & rural styles is genius. Their tribute to Madonna, who gave them the brand-name notoriety they deserve, is great (Dolce & Gabbana got big press for designing the outfits for Madonna's "Girlie Show" tour). Their recent work with Whitney Houston on her world tour was also spectaclar as these gentleman know how to make a woman look and feel like one.

I am so happy that Dolce & Gabanna, wo are my all-time favorite designers have been in the fashion business for over a decade already. I hope to see a followup of this book very soon, whenever they reach their 20th anniversary. An excellent tribute to a talented duo.

Great pictures of famous people in their D&G clothes. Advertisements with Linda Evangelista (great!) and Madonna, Demi Moore and many others. A must have!

I consider Dolce & Gabbana to be among the very best designers of our time- very much in the same class as the late Gianni Versace, a fellow Italian designer.

The photography in this book is very, very good most of the time. My favorite pictures are from a Fall 1995 ad campaign that featured my favorite, Linda Evangelista. Here she is, with her trademark Sassoon angled bob, one of her best looks ever. Another favorite set are of Nadja Auermann and Kate Moss, from a 1992 campaign. So over the top!

Also included are some celebrities, like Demi Moore and Madonna, who had D&G design her Girlie Show costumes.

You don't have to be a fashionista to appreciate this folio. I think this book would look great on ANYONE's coffee table.

This is a fabulous book, the type that you can sit with for hours and enjoy. It is reminiscent of Sante D'Orazio's first book, but on a much simpler scale. The photos are great, the commentary a little bare-bones but interesting. As a photographer, it's also interesting to see how different photographers have captured the same subject, sometimes more than once. Highly recommended and nicely published.

This book is a real great buy! Great pictures by all the famous photographers. Famous People from around the world tell us what they think is beauty.

Isabella was fired from Lancome because the American market isn't open to the idea of 40 year old representing their products. In France, 50 year old Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve (ahh Deneuve...) have both been equal symbols of sex and obsession for decades. In America it is quite different. Isabella knew that going into the contract with Lancome. She knew that one day she would have to be replaced by younger and slimmer Uma Thurmans of the World. Perhaps it isn't fair but that's how the american market operates (oh c'mon beauty, youth and sex sells). I found her analysis on the subjec almost phony. But the real reason I read the book is that I find both her parents Bergman and Rossellinia true exemple of pure European grace. I, therefore, certainly appreciated the antecdotes and memories.

Who could resist a book that connects lounging around in bed all day with "spiritual and intellectual wisdom"? Isabella Rossellini's Some of Me is a perfectly wonderful memoir of, well, some of her memories, experiences, interests, and lies. Rossellini assures the reader at the beginning of the book that she lies, and it's a disarming admission which sits interestingly with the candid and transparent prose style she has mastered. Rossellini's memoir details her relationship with her parents, Scorcese, Lynch, and her children, as well as her private passions and interests. For all her discretion, the narrative feels candid, and humorously ironic in a manner that is disarmingly personal because it feels so intimately addressed to the reader.

Rossellini tells of her conversations with "ghosts," a way of tying herself to her past that tweaks the conceit of the lie to provide a quite poignant meditation on loss when it is gracefully and passionately accepted. Her wrangle with Lancome over their decision that she was too old to represent them deals with loss in a more vigorously defiant way, and yet with a certain savoir-faire: Rossellini warns us that this section will be boring, her way of distancing herself from her own disappointment, perhaps, but also something of a lie.

But what's so intriguing about this book is the way in which Rossellini relies on memory's imprecision to move from topic to topic. From a discussion of her mother's advice that to live a happy life one requires "good health and a short memory," Rossellini moves to her forgetfulness, her mother's obsession with cleaning and to her own feelings about various cleaning implements, and then to the manifestation of her philosophy of living provided in the arrangements of objects in her home. These associative and nostalgic rambles are often poignant, and seldom lose a sense of coherence. Rather, they show how artless really excellent and thoughtful prose may seem.

And then there are the pictures: again, an artless miscellany that offers everything from hand-drawn cleaning instruments to objets trouves, art objects given to her by Lynch and others, and a collection of personal snaps as well as fashion photographs. Rossellini loves things for their simplicity, beauty, and richness. If you do too, enjoy this book.

Isabella Rosselini really is a beauty icon. SOME OF ME not only reveals her vulnerability, but also her point of view on life. It's simply listed as the best book I bought this year. Her way of telling the story is so amazing yet delicate. This book is a must for all Rosselini's fans. One has never thought that she too can be so revealing about her life beautifully