Milan Collections | Gucci S/S16

No longer interested in “playing it safe”, Michele takes a risk and sends floral printed suites, pastel silk and lace shirts reminiscent of a 1970’s music festival, seventy’s trench coats, tie dyed denim shorts and big geeky glasses down the runway; just as if it was any other typical day at Gucci. However, it most certainly was not. Models walked the runway to a soundtrack of Gregorian chanting and the opening look set the tone with green pants, gold shoes, a logo trench coat and a floral scarf. It was as if Michele screamed from backstage, “How’s that for change?”

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The venue, a former customs warehouse, set the scene for a new trend that has begun to merge men’s and women’s fashion into one. With ground scraping flare leg pants, lavender studded motorcycle jacket, Asian inspired floral bomber jacket paired with a tunic length button down shirt belted at the waist, there was no denying that traditional male dress codes are now borrowing from women’s silhouettes and fabrications. First the Boyfriend jean became a trend for women, now this.

Almost every garment piece in the collection, with the exception of eccentric bell bottom pants and jeans paired with bright red loafers, included some sort of embellishment – everything from jade on silk robes to botanical embroidery on a red track suit to fur trim. The gender lines were definitely blurred in some cases making to hard to determine the male models from the female. Will this new look work for the brand? Only time will tell.

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