MANIFESTO

#61

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EXQUISITE GUCCI

2022.02.27

by MADDALENA IODICE

Alessandro Michele celebrates clothes as optical labs where sartorial tradition meets Adidas sportswear codes. Cultural clash and 80’s silhouettes.

Alessandro Michele unfreezes the imaginific power of the world, restoring a mirror’s feature, which is building aberrations, enchantments, ghosts. Inspired by mirror described in the catoptrics treatises of the 1600s, the Creative Director whose vision keeps exploring space and time, celebrates the beauty of transformation and escape, celebrates clothes as capable of re-enchanting our presence in the world. The pieces for the Exquisite Gucci Collection are indeed optical labs “magical machines that can give birth to fairy tales of metamorphosis and re-enchantment.” Alessandro Michele’s language of freedom led us since 2015 to reconsider the concept of feminine and masculine, and fluidity is still today at the core, as a series of traditional suits are re-elaborated through new forms and twists that transcend genders: its a double breasted blue navy suit to set the tone of the collection as it opens the show. Piece after piece, Gucci sartorial mastery gets contaminated by a special collaboration with Adidas. It’s tradition that meets sportswear codes on 80’s inspired silhouettes. Its not simple juxtaposition of logos, but fusion of shapes and cultural references ( the idea first arrived to him when he saw a photo of Madonna from 1993 wearing a Laura Whitcomb dress), re-imagined with modern and sophisticated angle. Once again we are looking at fashion transformative power, and once again, it’s Alessandro Michele to show us. 

“I use the metaphor of the magical mirror to approach the phantasmagorical power of fashion. A sacred power that radiates from the surface of the fabrics”.

-ALESSANDRO MICHELE

BOTTEGA VENETA

BEYOND BORDERS

2023.09.24

Matthieu Blazy takes us through a physical and metaphorical journey, far away, in search of something else, and at the same time intimate, discovering the self. Clothes transform, men and women disguise and change, blending.

LOUIS VUITTON

GHESQUIÈRE OCTOBER 2014

2023.09.20

The GO-14 bag, an acronym for Ghesquière October 2014, originated as one of the first creations to mark the designer’s debut at the head of the Louis Vuitton Maison.

NEWS

On Foot

2023.09.19

The exhibition On Foot, curated by Jonathan Anderson at Offer Waterman Gallery, will bring contemporary artists in dialogue with works of modern British Art and some interventions conceived by the designer himself.

EXHIBITION

MODE ET SPORT. D'UN PODIUM À L'AUTRE

2023.09.18

Ahead of the 2024 Olympics, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris presents Mode et Sport: from September 20th 2023 will be possible to discover the fascinating interconnections between fashion and sport from the ancient world to the present day.

V&A Museaum

FASHION MANIFESTO

2023.09.15

The first exhibition in the UK dedicated to the visionary couturier Gabrielle Coco Chanel – Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto will open on September 16th 2023 at the Victoria & Albert Museum.