Inside Gucci’s Code-Breaking New Men’s Collection

“My masculine world is very, very broad. Men have opened a dialogue with a feminine world and I was thinking about the opportunity to show this,” said Alessandro Michele of his ‘Gucci Exquisite’ collection, which features a collaboration with Adidas.

For his latest Gucci collection, Alessandro Michele sent out a flip-book of the surrealist game ‘Exquisite Corpse’ – which you may know as picture consequences, the parlour game where you draw a fragment of an image without seeing the other constituent parts. The random assemblage of the resultant whole could be funny, sometimes enlightening, always unexpected. It was an interesting allusion for Michele to make between that game and the unanticipated juxtapositions that so often comprise looks in his Gucci shows – the idea of the accident or the chance is something he has always described as beautiful. He called this season ‘Exquisite Gucci’ – the last was ‘Love Parade’, and they both sound much better than ‘Autumn/Winter’ or ‘Spring/Summer’. Fitting the new moniker, there was a sense of specialness, of preciousness, permeating every garment on show. Read more at AnOther Magazine.