There are two kinds of love in the world.
One is that men and women look at the door, do not need too many waves of passion and ten fingers in the middle of the night, but just can accompany a lifetime, to the end of a look back, plainly remembered, this is just love.
The other is the original impulsive love, from the original desire, the blind love at first sight, which burns on the other side of reason—crazy, obsessed, desperate, with original sin—fantasy love.
And what Alessandro Michele is telling, is always the second story.
Alessandro Michele stepped out of the main entrance of the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood
photo by kevin tachman
Mother – the original educator of love. Whenever she was interviewed, Michele always mentioned his mother, mentioning that she was always talking about old movies from the past, from Hollywood to the city of Rome. "Before I became a fashion designer, I wanted to be a costume designer. So putting on a show in Los Angeles was like re-embracing my love of creation. ”
In this series, Michele herself, Michele's relationship with her mother, will involuntarily connect people to the movie "Nine", and its prototype "Eight and a Half". Of course, there are also some self-explanatory goddess figures, Marilyn Monroe's gelatinous skin, rita hayworth's black satin gloves, veronica lake waterfall-like hair, Elizabeth Taylor's hairstyle in Cleopatra, and even the yellow willow cream that symbolizes the snake and scorpion woman... These opened up new worlds for Michele, who lived in shacks on the outskirts of Rome, forming his cult of beauty, his dreams, his movies. So their looks, makeup, and even jewelry are dramatically worn on god-like models.
A look inspired by a legendary Hollywood actress and her role in the film
The Nightly Los Angeles Walk of Fame became the runway for Gucci's new series, decorated by michelle into an imaginary American look: neon lights, electronic billboards taking turns to appear with the famous words of Marilyn monroe, and the star-studded guest seats sat in their own directors' chairs, shining more than the satin suits and gold dresses of the models under the spotlight.
Gwyneth Paltrow wears the same red velvet pants suit he had when he attended the 1996 MTV Music Video Awards, which is from Gucci during the Tom ford era. Last season, Michele brought it back to the runway in a nod to the classics. Sitting next to her was the brand's CEO Marco Bizzarri, a sparkling emerald green gg logo printed suit suit. The two talk very happily, and "red with green" can always produce unexpected beauty. Such coincidences can naturally be associated with the classic red and green color scheme on Gucci products.
gwyneth paltrow
marco bizzarri
Dakota Johnson, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, Diane Keaton, Serena Williams were guests; jared leto, macaulay culkin, jeremy pope, Jodie turner smith and other well-known people became catwalk models... The easiest thing to do in Hollywood is probably to invite celebrities and celebrities.
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billie eilish、tracee ellis ross、dakota johnson
awkwafina、miley cyrus、serena williams
julia carey and james corden、sienna miller
florence welch、diane keaton、lizzo
steven yeun
jared leto、macaulay culkin
jeremy pope、jodie turner smith
"March of Love" – What does it mean?
Faced with such a question, Michele is no longer willing to answer any more - "I have no ability to interpret my work, it is an organic growth" It's like asking a couple of lovers who are indulging in the river of love what love is, and they will answer that love is everywhere. Try to explain the theme of love in terms of flowing water, which no longer grows in a linear logic, it spreads out — it's all around you. All is full of love.) – Michele chose the work of a legendary Icelandic musician who is very un-Hollywood to foil this march on love, "her musical narrative is very contemporary, and love is about beauty, about the planet".
Love is a fantasy, and only art can speak of absolute love that transcends reality, class, or institution—whether this artistic expression is film or fashion.
In the last season of Fashion Aria, Michele said that Gucci is a movie — "Some are real, some are fictional, but I don't care." In this season's post-show interview, Michele mentioned that Gucci has a natural connection with Hollywood, and while the growth of other brands is bound to class or a bourgeois posture, Gucci coexists with the jet-set era and with movie stars.
In the new season, Michele throws more Hollywood theatrical symbols into Gucci (always "to the point", doesn't it?). ----------------- They intertwine and envelop this group of "Hollywood upstarts", reminiscent of the most gorgeous moments of hollywood's golden age female stars, cleverly allow Cleopatra's headdress to show a futuristic look with the temperament of "Dune", flesh-colored dresses with a cone chest rest from the Time of Madonna Blonde, cowboy hats symbolizing "traditional America" and Indian-style ornaments linger throughout the series.
Paired with 1980s neon bodybuilding pants and cycling shorts is a silhouette blazer, with men and women oscillating between the sensuality of The American Dancer and the tide of Dandy boys—Michele still delicately grasps the misplaced game he has already mastered, a dramatic wandering above the blades—the abyss of bad taste on the one hand, and the hypnosis of fashion dreams on the other—like Hollywood, always at the pinnacle of kitsch and beauty.
And what is more appropriate for love, besides these fantasy-related whispers, is more desire—if we believe that love is an instinct, and that the only thing that drives the instinct is the original desire.
"The show is about welcoming and embracing this city of love and freedom", those Hawaiian shirts printed with tropical floral prints and Palm Island prints, the 1970s-inspired floral vintage dresses that remind people not only of the West Coast's "summer of love" – "love and peace", "love, don't fight" – a revolution catalyzed by drugs that gave birth to a new West Coast hippie culture, the ensuing stonewall movement and a broader subculture. Lust grows freely in underground clubs, but makes the world more real.
Michele looks for symbols of lust in queer culture and club culture, and together with the Gucci Spirit Snake Totem created by his hand, they transform into symbols of seductive love, becoming a powerful variation of this march, reflected in the bare skin.
Michele's interpretation of california's tropical flair
When asked what Michele thinks of Hollywood, his answer is that Hollywood is a story of life, with not only joy and pride, but also depression and hurt, but it represents a powerful energy, and pleasure of being alive.
The opening appearance of the "March of Love" series
In contrast, the opening styling of this conference: wearing a fur bib, wearing "out of fashion" fish mouth wedge boots, a female model with black mesh socks and a Gucci handbag walking under the street lamps of Hollywood streets, not with the magnificence and michelle fantasy of Los Angeles, but reflecting the dark side of the desire of this city of angels. But perhaps this is love— the pain of the moment when a romantic romance hits the heart the most — love, it is its innate obsession with falling that makes the burning red appear flesh and blood.
If we walk out of the hymn-like melody of All is Full of Love and listen to Madonna's more naked and straightforward "Hollywood," you're even more convinced that Michele's Hollywood has always been a dream.
everybody comes to hollywood
they wanna make it in the neighborhood
they like the smell of it in hollywood
how could it hurt you
when it looks so good
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