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ALTA STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

If you are an haute couture client — in other words, if you take your place at the table of the top one per cent of the top one per cent — you can look forward to certain privileges when it comes to shopping for clothes, chief among them the guarantee that nobody else will ever have the same item as you.

But when you’re a Dolce & Gabbana haute couture client, you’re given the world, or at least — as evidenced by the Italian duo’s most recent Alta Moda extravaganza in Sicily — the last 3,000 years

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