Excerpt: GUCCI. SPRING 2023 - MILAN FASHION WEEK

 

"Alessandro Michele returns with his metaphysical and socially inspired aesthetics for Gucci's Spring 2023 collection, leaving off from his occultist driven 'Cosmogonies' collection in May of this year, held at the mystical Promenade des Alycamps in Arles, Italy.  Michele's latest styles for the famed fashion house, have played on his reworked semantics titled "Welcome to Twinsburg" further accentuating Michele's eccentric inclinations, by having sets of twin models walk, towards the end of the show, in tandem at Milan Fashion week.

As the 2020 pandemic seemly has been abated by mass vaccinations, particularly rich Western countries at the expense of the poorer countries falling far behind in their vaccination rates.  The question is; have we all reached herd immunity?  When a new mutation or virus could be lurking around the corner.   Yet, the pandemic did show up the worst of humanity, from feverishly wanting to return back to dance festivals to right wing commenters calling it all a left wing conspiracy.    It was, globally the millions that perished from the virus, which was an extraordinary loss of life that many, unless touched by it in someway, has been dismissed as returning back to normal.   Michele was of the few fashion designers that wrote an open letter in 2020 during the global lockdowns, requesting that we should look at the pandemic as a time of reflection for our selves.  But, with Fashion Weeks retuning to full capacity and its renown excesses, you could be forgiven in thinking that Michele's heartfulness was reflective of that year and it all was just a blip in our tumultuous time line..."

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Full review: https://chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2022/09/gucci-spring-2023-milan-fashion-week.html  

(A.Glass 2022)