The Italian horror film director, Dario Argento, was a major influence on Gucci’s latest collection. These photos almost look like they belong on a covert 1970’s hippie sect pamphlet. So inviting, but a little off. I dunno, I’d probably join. Anywho, I’m loving the baggy, logo-ed, knee high boots and …
Read More »Gucci- Spring 2018- Cartoon Glamour
Gucci gave all kinds of 1970s glamour that can only be thought up after smoking cloves laced with cocaine and inhaling fumes of Aqua-Net on the regular. There was ice-skating glamour, tawdry lingerie disguised as dresses, and BUGS BUNNY and SNOW WHITE! They stole the show! Why wouldn’t anyone NOT …
Read More »Gucci – Fall 2017- An Eccentric World of Its Own
Designer Alessandro Michele has no doubt breathed life into the House of Gucci, but has also managed to create a world within a snow globe of a 1970’s disco dolly with a fondness for sequins and ruffles, as well as an array of garish colors. In other words, this is …
Read More »Gucci- Spring 2017- Eccentric Glamour
I’m always in awe with how many ways Gucci can make a collection more offbeat than the next. As a recent Gucci-worshipper, this collection was no different. It was elegant, yet uncommon. It was wearable, yet eccentric. It mixed street fashion with high fashion… it was perfect! And those oversized …
Read More »Gucci- Resort 2017- Italian Glamour X British Punk
Gucci took a trip to Westminster Abbey for their Resort 2017 collection and it brought out a mish-mash of Italian glamour and British punk. what I loved most were the kilts with cats! I also like the sect sister-wife satin peach dress in photo ten.This newly -kitsch Gucci has become …
Read More »Gucci- Fall 2016- Original 70’s…
Designer Alessandro Michele has really revived the House of Gucci and with his second show, Michele has not only revived it, but also moved along full speed and has caught up with Italian fashion. Right now, I feel Italian fashion is slowly pushing ahead of the French. Don’t get me …
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