Frida Giannini never fails to amaze me! I love Gucci!
If there’s one thing Gucci stands for as a brand, it is decadence, but this fall Frida Giannini placed its aesthetic into a very different historical context than the familiar, hard-edged sexiness of the nineties or the brittle, shiny geometry of last season’s Deco-flapper collection. Instead, she’d found her inspiration in the Pre-Raphaelite period, recasting Edward Burne Jones’s consumptive heroines as modern girls with plum-stained lips, bleached eyebrows, with their hair drawn away from their pale faces and twisted into flowing tendrils. The clothes they wore evoked a darkly poetic opulence—at times nymphlike, but with the fragility counterbalanced by references to a briskly dandy-ish masculinity with a dash of swaggering World War I militaria. It made for an extensive and varied flow of sophisticated clothes, softer and richer in tone, in a show which also encompassed the emerging ideas in fall’s fashion narrative. It made for Giannini’s best collection yet.
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