MANIFESTO

#61

ART NOW

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

RIVE DROITE

SAINT LAURENT BY
VANESSA BEECROFT

2023.02.15

Saint Laurent invites Vanessa Beecroft to photograph the Spring 23 collection: a selection of 14 polaroids is on display at Rive Droite stores in Paris and Los Angeles. 

COLLECTION

Gucci Après-Ski

2022.12.15

The Maison presents the new Gucci Après-Ski collection, a selection of garments designed for a luxurious and refined high-altitude season told through a retro campaign inspired by the relaxed atmosphere of winter holidays.

JACQUEMUS

"LE RAPHIA"

2022.12.13

Under a relentless rain of raffia, that breaks in like a summer storm, Jacquemus presents its new Spring Summer 2023 collection, titled “Le Raphia”. The natural fiber becomes the undisputed star moving from its raw essence to being extremely luxurious.

CELINE

Age of Indieness

2022.12.12

Age of Indieness spotlights an aesthetic raised from the indie-sleaze era of the 1990s and early 2000s, Celine’s Winter 2023 collection, designed by Hedi Slimane, walk the catwalk at the Wiltern Theatre in the heart of Los Angeles.

Fashion

Chanel
Métiers d’Art

2022.12.09

The Chanel Métiers d’Art 2022/23 collection, presented under the artistic direction of Virginie Viard, parades at the Palais de Justice in Dakar, capital of Senegal. The show is unique in terms of creativity, and a tribute to the savoir-faire of the place.