Reblog: May 17, 2022 GUCCI. RESORT 2023

"I have just completed my 6th paperback novel titled "Evenfall of the Helical", which is my most personal, spiritual, dark and powerful book to date, melding my interest in

metaphysics, the occult and science.  From Hell State to Healing and its Realizations, incorporating all my studies of left hand Eastern spiritual teachings from iconoclastic Zen to Esoteric Buddhism, through to Western symbols of occultism.  Whether this is seen as a plug or not, I won't describe the book in anymore detail as the publication, although it is available to purchase, has to settle into its own resonation, which I can't disturb until it's ready for further discussion.   However, I was surprised to see that Gucci's Alessandro Michele exploring some of the said themes with his Resort 2023 collection titled "Cosmogonies".   

Michele has been drawn to and inspired to show his latest collection within the mystical 13th Century Citadel: Castel del Monte, commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and completed by his death in 1250.    This seemingly out of place Castle that resides in the southern Italian region of Puglia, as it sits atop of a hill surrounded by grass and scattered olive trees.  Filled with octagonal shapes with its eight prominent towers and the number 8 as a geometry theme..."