excerpt: Gucci. Fall 2026 - Milan Fashion week
"... And for Milan Fashion week, he has staged his first runway show for Gucci, Fall 2026, titled "Primavera" which actually means Spring in Italian, was held at the Palazzo delle Scintille, designed by architect Paolo Vietti-Violi and opened in 1923, it was, although not designed for, a fascist centrepiece, and famously held the Mussolini's 1934 speech, " Italy's Right to Exist ". Where have I heard that phrase before, with another country's title, in the last three years, in our renewed effort to restore the ghost of fascism throughout the world? And Demna, who is no stranger to controversy, even with his subtle and not so subtle attempts at causing a stir while he was with Balenciaga, has recopied the Uffizi Gallery famous statues (greatly admired by Mussolini and Hitler, when he visited the Gallery in 1938), as a overshadowing backdrop, while the runways models walked in their modernist strides, with Demna's defined, yet rigid inspire...
