Dolce & Gabbana's Viva La Mamma collection criticised on Twitter

Home Top

Welcome to 'Francisville'! Emotional crowds greet Pope Francis in Philadelphia as he calls on the church to 'break down walls' and suggests he will address city's horror church sex-abuse scandal
The little boy who captured Pope Francis' heart: Disabled Michael Keating, 10, met the pontiff on the tarmac clasping his rosary beads
The heavens smile down on Pope Francis: Dozens of 'rainbows' appear above New York as huge crowds flock to see the Pontiff
EXCLUSIVE: Little girl who begged Pope Francis to let her illegal immigrant parents stay in the U.S. is going to Philadelphia to see him AGAIN
'The coach said he would be alright': New Jersey high school quarterback, 17, dies after saying he felt 'woozy' after a tackle on the field
'Despicable' Saudi prince 'sexually abused at least FOUR women during three-day party at his $37m Beverly Hills compound'
Millionaire lottery winner, 21, claims her mother, 51, STOLE her winnings and squandered them on a tummy-tuck and facelift
EXCLUSIVE: It's a miracle! How Jaxon, the baby given days to live when he was born with most of his skull missing, has defied the odds - and is celebrating his first birthday
Woman, 20, faces up to five years in jail after being photographed riding a sea turtle on beach in Florida
Bobbi Kristina Brown's 'cause of death is known but authorities won't release findings until criminal investigation is completed'
Rapper Fetty Wap is rushed to hospital after being hit by a car while overtaking on his motorcycle in New Jersey
Hillary Clinton interview with 'biggest fan' Lena Dunham touches on feminism, her marriage to Bill... and Lenny Kravitz's wardrobe malfunction
Now MORE Hillary Clinton emails surface - between her and disgraced general David Petraeus - after she swore she turned over 'all of them'
Clinton campaign's faux pas: New Hillary ad boasts 'this is our country'; while showing a video of FRANCE (of all places)
Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson backs Trump after tycoon vowed to bring back Christmas and brandished his childhood Bible in an appeal to the conservative right
Can YOU spot a love cheat from their face? Scientists say you can - now see if you can identify which six of these 12 people have been unfaithful
Horrifying moment frail 83-year-old was brutally beaten into critical condition by a young thug at random outside a restaurant
'She said: "He's going to kill me and he's going to get away with it"': Kris Jenner admits she 'will always feel guilty' about Nicole Brown Simpson's death
'I'm so sorry': First responder's heartbreaking apology letter to parents of boy he tried and failed to save goes viral
The stroke SAVED her life: Kim Zolciak's medical emergency 'revealed she has a more serious underlying heart condition that was treated immediately'
'I know his problems and that's what made me so mad': High school teen punished for defending his blind friend who was being beaten by a bully speaks out
The heart-warming moment a little lion cub practised his roar for tourists... only to give himself a fright with the tiny sound
Super blood moon eclipse will not herald the end of the world this weekend, says Mormon Church after apocalyptic warnings from Doomsday pastor
At least a dozen fake doctors performed botched surgeries on patients in elaborate $150M fraud scheme that spanned a decade

Dolce & Gabbana's Sicily bag is part of its Fall 2015 Viva La Mamma collection that celebrates motherhood
Trend for portraits appearing on handbags hit the mainstream when Kanye West gave wife Kim Kardashian a $40,000 Hermes bag hand-painted with a nude surrealist image
Dolce & Gabbana also has a textured iPhone wallet with a similar pattern available for $1,095

Published: 15:02 EST, 25 September 2015 | Updated: 19:41 EST, 25 September 2015

188

View
comments

The trend of high-fashion handbags incorporating designs that look like they could have been drawn by a third-grader shows no sign of slowing down if Dolce & Gabbana's Fall 2015 line is any indication.

Commenters have taken to social media to decry Dolce & Gabbana's black Sicily bag, which features cutouts of a mother holding the hands of her two daughters, along with a smiling dog and angry cat.

Jezebel used the headline 'The devil has revealed himself in the form of a $2,975 Dolce & Gabbana bag', to describe the purse, which attracted more than 22,000 shares so far, with most readers mocking the design.

Hideous handbag: The Dolce & Gabbana bag is part of the Viva La Mamma collection and retails for $2,975

Fashion fans: Jezebel referred to the bag as the devil, and said its launch could signal the impending apocalypse

While one lamented 'Whatever happened to basic black?', another seemed shocked that the bag existed. 'Oh God it's real. I thought it was a silly graphic but it actually f*****g looks like that,' the commenter wrote, adding: 'Jesus skateboarding Christ.'

Yet another commenter remarked that the bag looked like 'the back window of a minivan'.

Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have said the Viva la Mamma collection is a celebration of motherhood - and an homage to their own mothers.

For the show during Milan Fashion Week, a handful of models stepped onto the catwalk with their children and babies, and heavily-pregnant model Bianca Balti also walked the runway.

Social slams: One commenter wrote that the designer bag looked like 'the back window of a minivan'

Alternate accessory: Dolce & Gabbana also created an appliquéd textured-leather iPhone wallet that retails for $1,095

The trend for portrait purses arguably hit the mainstream when Kanye West gifted wife Kim Kardashian with an Hermes bag hand-painted by George Condo - whose work hangs in the Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.

Kim's bag - before the image of the green-headed man and nude women was added - cost around $40,000 minus the portrait.

When Kim shared images of the bag on her Instagram, they soon received more than 188,000 likes and 27,000 comments, including: 'Such a waste of a Birkin bag' from user elenimack and '#epicfail' by jedebough.

For those who can't get enough of the family portraits, Dolce & Gabbana also offers alternatives including a Sicily textured leather phone bag for $1,295 an iPhone wallet for $1,095.