Inspired by nature, Alessandro Michele came out with a collection that oozes controlled eccentricity. Michele deploys his vision of Gucci heritage within an imagination and a poetry that takes on the aesthetics of the 70s with wise and unpretentious emotion. The Gucci woman this time around looks like a girl that’s conscious more of her sensual powers than of her sexual prowess. It’s through a rich stylistic vocabulary that he crafts an urban and applied silhouette. And this is how, with a sprinkle of retro insolence, the iconic horsebit moccasin is reinvented with the basics of Gucci chic.
Alessandro Michele knows what he’s doing. As the head of accessories since 2002, he’s become an expert in the brand’s style and leathers. But this time, he’s insisting on the kitsch refinement of his own signature. Audacious styling brought him to imagine the neo-Gucci moccasin for Spring/Summer 2016. Reusing the label’s emblematic horsebit, that he gracefully affixes on a half-moccasin, he’s succeeded in bringing this shoe up into the ranks of an absolute “must have”. Embellished with particular tact, Alessandro Michele is able to bring the shoe into a carefully chosen contemporariness.
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