GUCCI : A wind of « déjà-vu » blows on the FW17 collection

Opulence, all kinds of flowers, leaves, butterflies, scarabs and other critters, animal prints, styles mix, androgyny … all the ingredients of the Gucci by Alessandro Michele cocktail are in the shaker. So shake well, serve and you see that as good the cocktail is, it has always the same flavor. The first time it’s wonderful, new and it transports you, then you will get tired of it, even if the waiter takes care to serve you in a always more fantastic glass ! It may seem strange to compare the Gucci FW17 show with a cocktail and yet …

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The collection showed in Milan on February 22 could have been an another season one, an other year one, hidden in its futurist luminous tunnel.

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In this impressive setting (in any case more than the collection itself) served as a screen between the guests and the inaccessible “anti-modern laboratory” of Alessandro Michele. It is a very poetic way of describing his style … (is there a word to designate this style?) Street, sewing, exotic, chic, pop … actually mix one Little anything you want (in the shaker) and you will have the Gucci style.

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But if there is one thing that we can not withdraw at this show, it is indeed its reflective and spectacular staging. The catwalk took place in a bright plexiglas tunnel. At the center of it, stood a golden pyramid with a cock on.

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Presenting the #GucciFW17 women’s and men’s show space. Featuring a pyramid at the center of the plexiglass tunneled runway crowned with a weathervane in the shape of a rooster. See the show live on Instagram Stories or through the link in bio.

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For the soundtrack, Gucci has collaborated with the rapper A $ AP Rocky, invited to the show, which recorded himself reading in particular a text of “Persuasion” by Jane Austen.

So as the famous “everyone his tastes” says, it’s up to you to see if you succumb to the exotic cocktail Gucci FW17 …

Anaelle Coulon