Michele included a Guccified version of the Madonna dress in his lineup. Now, collaborations are the biggest of businesses, connecting fashion to the wider culture, like celebrity does.
Pre-Madge, fashion and fitness were different worlds. Michele mentioned being influenced by a photo of Madonna from 1993 in a dress by Laura Whitcomb, who had an early streetwear line, Label, that licensed sports brand logos. Maybe it’s time to reconsider what we call them, but either way there were all manner of men’s suits here: a navy double-breasted beauty that opened the show, a velvet tuxedo with crystal detailing, corduroy, plaids, and sequins. “Women are really interested in men’s suits,” he said beforehand. In the intervening years, our definitions of masculine and feminine have loosened, though maybe not as much as we think.
That collection put gender fluidity at the center of the conversation, where it remains today. “Clothes are capable of reflecting our image in an expanded and transfigured dimension… wearing them means to cross a transformative threshold where we become something else.” The liminal space is what turns him on, a point he made clear in his Gucci debut circa 2015. In his press notes, Michele made a connection between mirrors and fashion. Her appearance was electrifying, and the mirrored runway multiplied the camera flashes. His homecoming was never going to be business as usual, but then Rihanna glided in, pregnant and rocking a headdress and a bare belly underneath a fur chubby.
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It’s been two full years since Alessandro Michele put Gucci on the runway in Milan.
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