Spring-Summer 2005 ready-to-wear by Donatella Versace. "Sous-Marine" collection.

She stands before the eternal breath of Rome, not as a tourist, but as a vision — Alicia, the beautiful Italian woman who has turned the Trevi Fountain into her personal proscenium. The stone gods and galloping horses seem to hush their ancient murmur, watching her with awe.

She wears the sea itself: a pastel lavender silk blouse scattered with fiery red corals and starfish — prints that evoke summer tides and forgotten reefs, stitched into silk like sea-winds into memory. Her skirt, knee-length and sculpted in soft lavender jersey, clings to her like a whisper, as if the breeze of Capri had dressed her. And at her waist, a chain belt glints like sunlight catching a fisherman’s net — sensual, refined, unapologetically Versace. To remember beauty as a birthright, fashion as mythology, and Rome as the capital of dreams.