As with everything Alessandro Michele presents, Gucci’s Fall/Winter 2020 show was multidimensional. This season, he staged his show at the brand’s headquarters, formally known as Gucci Hub, inviting guests on a virtual behind-the-scenes tour. The show presented models as dress-up dolls in Michele’s latest creations, standing in a glass-encased carousel rather than walking the runway
To celebrate Alessandro Michele’s half-decade anniversary as Gucci’s creative director, the brand held its first show on the menswear schedule since 2017 during Milano Fashion Week Men’s Fall/Winter 2020. ©Gucci
Taking inspiration from the world of designers and their muses, the Gucci’s Fall/Winter 2019 campaign pays homage to the mythical passion, performance and pomp of the fashion circuit. Titled ‘’Prêt-À-Porter’’, photographer Glen Luchford captures street style shots, runway images and studio portraits. Creative director Alessandro Michele’s statement designs include sequin embellished gowns, relaxed suiting as
Harry Styles returns as the face of Gucci’s Pre-Fall 2019 men’s tailoring campaign, shot once again by Harmony Korine (Korine has worked with Gucci in the past, including on the Pre-Fall men’s and women’s lookbook). For the House’s tailoring collection, Korine captures Harry Styles as an eclectic, care-free character surrounded by piglets, swans and Roman
Gucci visits the ruined temples of the Selinunte Archaeological Park in Sicily for its Pre-Fall 2019 campaign. The campaign, photographed by Glen Luchford, pays homage to the ancient Greek tradition. Lunchford shoots a cast of eclectic models including bodybuilders and punk rockers amidst the historic setting, among them: Delphi Mcnicol, Dwight Hoogendijk, Emmanuel Adjaye, Matïss
‘’The mask becomes the means through which we become what we feel we are’’, ‘’and the masks were a link to the idea of what dressing means’’, Alessandro Michele said of the Gucci Fall/Winter 2019 collection. The mask, Jason Voorhees masks or fetish store masks with two inch-long spikes, would recur throughout the collection, a
Harry Styles is once again starring in a new Gucci campaign, this time for the fashion house’s Cruise 2019 tailoring collection. The campaign shot by Glen Luchford, is set in the Mannerist, Renaissance gardens of Villa Lante north of Rome. Also a recurring theme, the British musician can be seen posing with various animals including
Alessandro Michele makes the past live in the present. For Spring/Summer 2019, he took us down to the former legendary night club in Paris: Le Palace, the hallowed ground of a late, great ‘70s and early-’80s club. For Michele, that would be the right place to ‘’reconnect high culture and popular culture’’. Le Palace, haunt
Titled ‘’Gucci Collectors’’, the Fall/Winter 2018 campaign of Gucci sheds light on the fictional. The inspiration was derived from ‘’eccentric personalities who passionately seek out paintings, antiques, rare objects and other vintage collectibles’’. Shot by Glen Luchford, styled by Paul Hanlon and art-directed by Christopher Simmonds, the campaign is a wide range of collections showcase
Following Dior and Louis Vuitton, Gucci choose France to show its Cruise 2019 collection, precisely the Provencal city of Arles, at the Alyscamps, one of the most famous Roman necropolises of the ancient world. Surrounded by the haunting soundtrack of Claudio Monteverdi’s “Vespers for the Blessed Virgin”, Alessandro Michele, reportedly fascinated by “the idea of
