The designer has revolutionized the global luxury business and aesthetic since his arrival in 2015.
, and the Spring 2023 collection modeled by 68 sets of twins won praise as a feat of casting, but perhaps this was not enough.
Or perhaps Pinault simply wants the brand to head in another direction. Gucci is considered Kering’s marquee brand, generating, although in recent years, Balenciaga, under creative director Demna, and Saint Laurent, helmed by Anthony Vaccarrello, have also been stars at the conglomerate.
From the moment Michele debuted his first collection for the house, a menswear show at January 2015’s Pitti Uomo, he set off ripples that shifted the entire fashion industry, both in aesthetics and business. Michele was plucked from relative obscurity, having worked at the brand since 2002 under Tom Ford, and the move practically thumbed its nose at the habit of bold-faced name designer appointments that generally drive fashion world buzz.
At the Spring 2020 show, a classic Gucci look as developed by Alessandro Michele: oversized, nerdy glasses, wild accessories, gold hardware, and vaguely vintage clothes.Michele found trusted avatars for this look in stars like Jared Leto and Florence Welch, and then, as his bric-a-brac collections grew more sprawling and ambitious, he brought larger stars into the fold to help proselytize: Dakota Johnson, Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, and most famously, Harry Styles.
Half-mystical, half-hyper-contemporary, Michele’s Gucci shows perfectly embodied the well-traveled millennial scrolling madly through the Instagram feed. At the Fall 2018 show, model Unia Pakhomova was sent down the runway carrying a copy of her own head.As Michele charged his vision forward at a nearly unstoppable pace, he proved himself adept at adjusting to the new demands of the politically-engaged, fashion-fluent millennial consumer.
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