Alessandro Michele Feels Freer, As Gucci Heads to LA for Nov. 3 Fashion Show, Nov. 6 LACMA Gala

Michele Alessandro Feels Freer, As Gucci Heads to LA for Nov. 3 Fashion Show, Nov. 6 LACMA Gala

Gucci’s Season-Free Fashion

In May 2020 Gucci’s visionary Alessandro Michele announced that the Italian luxury brand intended to permanently limit the number of fashion shows it produces down to two.

“The change I imagine involves the capacity to reconnect with the deepest reasons that inspired my entry into the fashion realm,” he wrote. “I feel the need to renew a bond, purifying the essential by getting rid of the unnecessary. I crave the authentic motive of a choice. The full set of reasons that set me on my way. I understand, as time went by, that these motives have different names and different intensities, but they inevitably gather around the same urgency: the possibility to tell.”

Moving towards Spring 2021, SSENSE No. 3 expressed beautifully Gucci’s new attitude in the fashion story shot in Mallorca by Vanina Sorrenti [IG]. The imagery featuring models Aminata Diao and Nina Alonso styled in Gucci by Julia Ragolia perfectly captures Alessandro Michele’s ‘new mood’. Better yet , ‘Tender Light On a Mallorcan Farm’ reflects a “new fashion philosophy” in which clothes and inner reflection fuse into a deeper, values-driven sentiment about identity. / Hair and makeup by Tess Alamillo