Gucci. Spring 2027 - Milan Fashion Week
Don't you miss Demna Gvasalia's Balenciaga days? Be it his ex-Vetements, antithesis, fashion backlash, despite its possibility of being a feigned attempt at the postmodern, as a simulacrum and appeal to his celebrity-dom collective. I kinda do. From disheveled sneakers at $1500, through to backlash graphic t-shirts and homage to his Tbilisi, Georgia rave days, when East Europeans could only dream of wearing an actual, not an oddly shaped knock off, Nike or Adidas hoodie. Demna is now five shows in for the fame Italian fashion house, owned by $30 billion dollar net worth Kering S.A Group, to which the Georgian designer churned through $10 million of Kering's cash pile, to stage his Resort 2027 collection at Times Square in May of this year, ala Demna's "Guccicore". And with a poverty rate in New York City over 25%, equating to more than 2+ million New Yorkers living below the poverty line, the absurd could easily be affixed to the obscene, with no rhyme or...
