H his fall/winter 2019 Milan display, Gucci’s innovative director Alessandro Michele pulled from his deep love of all matters, historical and androgynous, with a theme of the otherworldly mask as Stars which include Andrew Garfield, Saoirse Ronan, Salma Hayek Pinault, Lucy Boynton, and St. Vincent, showed as much as assisting the Italian fashion logo. Gucci spared no fee, even sending out invites to the display inside the shape of a 3D plaster mask. Michele aimed to reinvent the classic concept of a masked conceal as a means to find authenticity.
The masks, in reality, let us show ourselves as we please and play our appearing role as we assume is satisfactory,” wrote the brand in accompanying display notes. “It’s the possibility to pick out a way to exercising our freedom to expose ourselves thru a powerful filter out that constantly selects what we need to percentage about us and what we need to conceal rather.
In addition to a complete-on leather-based and plastic face mask, Michele used jewelry as a mask, with huge gold earrings and headpieces morphing throughout the models’ faces. Accessories of bondage-themed ambitious leather-based and giant spikes contrasted throughout softer pastel beaded robes and floral prints. Some models wore giant black contacts in the spirit of otherworldliness to cowl their eyeballs and sported bleached eyebrows, melding the antique beyond with a robotic destiny.
The subject of safety extended into GG-logo knee pads, cocooning oversized jackets and coats, and clean blouson trousers. Gucci continued its latest march of androgynous, with boxy suiting for each woman and man, paired with thick vintage ties and shirting collars. There was additionally the signature eclectic mashup of colors, styles, and textures. Sequined spangle, flirty ruffles, peplum jackets, and pussy-bow blouses contrasted with sharp tailoring, plaids, and menswear fabric.
Michele designed a one-hundred-meter mirrored runway whole with a backdrop of one hundred twenty,000 LED lighting, which form-shifted in step with the gothic operatic music as fashions nonchalantly walked across the level. The audience became seated in a pyramid form, displaying the high percent of VIPs inside the front row.
Saoirse Ronan becomes a model for Gucci’s epicene fall/wintry weather code, sporting a three-piece healthy mixture of the army, rust, gray, and orange, tied together with an eye-fixed chain belt. Salma Hayek Pinault wore a metallic pink floral variety, with lots of feminine gildings and gold brocade and red fur trim.
Gucci excellent-fan Jared Leto confirmed up in his favorite floral uniform, this time decked out in a technicolor blue and crimson cape-coat over branded sweatpants and rainbow-striped skateboard footwear. The sweeping hood of his coat served as his personal mask as he disappeared below the hood as photographers angled to get a glimpse of his protected face.
Andrew Garfield wore tinted yellow sunglasses and a bomber jacket with Disney’s Three Little Pigs decorating the sleeve from Gucci’s Chinese New Year-themed pill collection. Bohemian Rhapsody star Lucy Boynton also played with the menswear topic in a boxy denim skirt in shape with an unfashionable oversize collar and neck sash. Other visitors blanketed Chinese actress Ni Ni, director Gia Coppola and musicians St. Vincent, The Clementines, and Italian rocker Ghali.
