Gucci

Thousands of tiny lights illuminate Gucci’s A/W 2019 elliptical mirrored show set

In recent seasons, we’ve got our medical scrubs on with Gucci, inside the Italian brand’s antiseptic operating theatre-inspired show set, and been soothed by a live interlude courtesy of Jane Birkin at its decadent Paris nightlife-celebrating show, inside the city’s...

Silk route: foulard’s complex pattern systems mirror intricate high jewellery design

Easy lover: we’re at ease with the relaxed mood of modern tailoring

Perfumer Alberto Morillas on creating a garden of fragrances with Alessandro Michele for Gucci

For perfumer Alberto Morillas, fragrance is ‘medicine for the soul’. Fitting, then, than his new family of creations for Gucci, formed in close partnership with creative director Alessandro Michele, appear as if grown from an alchemist’s medicine garden. Available today...

Signed, sealed, delivered: the greatest fashion week invitations of the S/S 2019 season

Hike society: performance wear attains peak style

Few of us will ever take on the trek to Everest Base Camp, but that hasn’t stopped men’s fashion from harnessing the mountaineering spirit, now as sought after on the street as on Himalayan hiking trails. Think haute couture meets...

Gucci and Maurizio Cattelan explore the power of appropriation in Shanghai show

The Artist is Present – this time in Shanghai with Italian artist-cum-curator Maurizio Cattelan and Gucci’s Alessandro Michele, who have come together with 37 fellow artists from both China and throughout the world. But those expecting a re-run of Marina Abramović’s...

Gucci S/S 2019 Paris Fashion Week Women’s

Scene setting: Grace Jones singing ‘La Vie En Rose’ atop a Harley Davidson and surrounded by dry ice, waiters dressed in Mugler designed uniforms, Prince’s first concert… the list of ostentatious scenes noted at Le Palace – the theatre-turned-nightclub on the rue du...

Testing ground: Gucci unveils its ArtLab, a centre for craftsmanship and sustainability

From the textured tiger head closure of the Gucci Dionysus bag, to the shearling lined inner of its slip-on Horsebit loafers, the brand’s Alessandro Michele-designed accessories are staple of its recent revenue success. In 2017, Gucci’s leather goods and shoes...

Course of nature: V&A dissects fashion’s relationship with the living world

Four years ago, when curator Edwina Ehrman started thinking about the Victoria & Albert Museum’s latest exhibition, ‘Fashioned From Nature’, she envisaged exploring how fashion designers had been inspired by the natural world over time – how, for example, they...

Seal of approval: A/W 2018’s most outstanding fashion week invitations

Scene-stealing runway sets from the A/W 2018 womenswear shows