Gucci gets romantic in Milan
Italian luxury brand Gucci recently held a catwalk show at Milan Fashion Week, with a dark romantic theme and plenty of leather.
Before the show, chief executive of PPR, Gucci’s parent company, Francois Henri Pinault posed for photographs with Chinese starlet Gao Yuanyuan. The show came just a week after Gucci’s announcement that its sales in Asia had strengthened PPR’s figures this year.
Gucci’s creative director Frida Giannini incorporated some of the house’s most successful signatures into her baroque-tinged, Chinoiserie-inspired vision for the coming season.
The label’s trademark leather riding boots and tasselled cord belts were teamed with silk and velvet brocade dresses and chiffon blouses with billowing bell sleeves and upright ruffled collars.
“This is modern-day romanticisim,” Ms Giannini explained, citing the pre-Raphaelites as inspiration. “Dramatic sensuality and dark glamour.”
More than 72 fashion houses are currently showing their collections in venues across Milan.
