Gucci goes meta-fashion for the FW20 fashion show Alessandro Michele turns on the light on the "behind the scenes" of the fashion world and breaks the wall between his show and the public
It's been three weeks since Alessandro Michele astonished everybody with the FW2020 menswear collection fashion show. In that occasion, the italian the designer made his models walk on an Elizabethan amphitheater-like catwalk dominated by the swinging of a giant "Foucaultian" pendulum. Whilst Michele's always had a glimpse to turn his runways into cinematographic and theatrical sets, for the Gucci FW womenswear fashion show he decided to overcome himself: he completely thrown away the catwalk. On its place, models have posed on a giant rotating footboard absorbed in a gloomy atmosphere and on the notes of Ravel's Boléro. This giant glass cage has been the stage of a particular experiment: on the inside, Michele recreated the backstage of the fashion show itself and made his stylists dress the models under everyone's eyes.
The space of the show so becomes a place of experimentation and discussion and a stage for a revolutionary shout. It's an important choice of revolution, though it risks to overshadow the light on the clothes - and has made the show itself difficult to appreciate, both for the photographers and the public. In general, it looks like it's been a low-tone fashion show. There's not even been a trace of many illustrious guests: there were no Tyler The Creator, Anderson Paak, Jared Leto, Ghali and Maurizio Cattelan, neither Harry Styles, all of them big protagonists of the recent menswear Fashion Week.
On the merely fashion side, Gucci has confirmed a continuity with what we've seen On the menswear, proposing a lot of wool tailleurs, big skirts and lace dresses and details, satin blouses and oversize velvet pants. In general, Michele continues its road to exaggeration, mixing enormous bangles, gloves, collars and crucifixes with his Victorian-inspired looks - and confirming that his style it's already a certainty.
