Show Report
FRIDA GIANNINI sent out a delicious dose of Gucci sexarama tonight: all brushed blonde hair, perfect skin and gorgeous figures shown off to a perfectly honed tee. The first looks introduced winter white to next season via leather dresses wrapped around the body and just missing out a strip of flesh under the arms, worn with cream tights and patent strappy heels or higher-than-thigh leather boots.
The thing about a Gucci show is that it always gives you goosebumps as you arrive. Even though the Tom Ford days are long, long gone, you just can’t help but feel the thrill of his highly sexed legacy and feel like you’re about to witness the glamorous epitome of all that a really Italian fashion show should be.
The nature of a legacy is often that it grows out of all proportion to the reality that inspired it and it’s difficult to imagine that our goosebumps will ever really be satisfied – but nevertheless today’s collection had all the great Gucci elements: tightly tailored crease-front trousers that had a subtle boot cut to allow for supersonically high heels, cropped leather jackets and fantastic Seventies-style big-collared suede coats that made you want to follow the model to whichever party she was on the way to.
“It’s unfortunate that the devil makes us sin, but we like it when we’re spinning,” a remix of Massive Attack’s Paradise Circus rang out sounding uncannily like “we like it when we’re skinny” – unpolitically correct, certainly – but pretty apt when it comes to these clothes.
Blonde furs, tan suede tunic dresses, burgundy ostrich leather cropped jackets, soft leather waistbands on skinny black jeans and shiny metallic bands holding second skin jersey dresses together had a tactile warmth that made the Gucci woman somehow less untouchable than before – you might, just, be brave enough to at least try and talk to her.
Lace, feathers and dégradé sequins smothered an impressive array of party dresses for a finale that, along with big bags featuring a great big shiny GG logo (they’re definitely coming back after that), were the pieces we’re most likely to see on the party circuit next winter.
The thing about a Gucci show is that it always gives you goosebumps as you arrive. Even though the Tom Ford days are long, long gone, you just can’t help but feel the thrill of his highly sexed legacy and feel like you’re about to witness the glamorous epitome of all that a really Italian fashion show should be.
The nature of a legacy is often that it grows out of all proportion to the reality that inspired it and it’s difficult to imagine that our goosebumps will ever really be satisfied – but nevertheless today’s collection had all the great Gucci elements: tightly tailored crease-front trousers that had a subtle boot cut to allow for supersonically high heels, cropped leather jackets and fantastic Seventies-style big-collared suede coats that made you want to follow the model to whichever party she was on the way to.
“It’s unfortunate that the devil makes us sin, but we like it when we’re spinning,” a remix of Massive Attack’s Paradise Circus rang out sounding uncannily like “we like it when we’re skinny” – unpolitically correct, certainly – but pretty apt when it comes to these clothes.
Blonde furs, tan suede tunic dresses, burgundy ostrich leather cropped jackets, soft leather waistbands on skinny black jeans and shiny metallic bands holding second skin jersey dresses together had a tactile warmth that made the Gucci woman somehow less untouchable than before – you might, just, be brave enough to at least try and talk to her.
Lace, feathers and dégradé sequins smothered an impressive array of party dresses for a finale that, along with big bags featuring a great big shiny GG logo (they’re definitely coming back after that), were the pieces we’re most likely to see on the party circuit next winter.