Yet, if Gucci’s new designer Sabato de Sarno was rattled before he took his bow for the Italian luxury house at Milan fashion week on Friday, he didn’t show it.
Where Michele was an overt maximalist with retro references, de Sarno mined the Gucci archive and codes in a more stripped-back way.
Oxblood red dominated the collection, inspired by The Savoy hotel in London where Guccio Gucci worked in the late 1800s.
The bling was, in fact, a reference to the Marina jewelry collection that appeared in Gucci campaigns in the late 1960s.
The rest of the embellished crystal designs were inspired by embroideries de Sarno found on 1960s clutch bags in the Gucci archive.
Persons:
Milan, Sabato de Sarno, Alessandro Michele’s, De Sarno, Julia Roberts, Ryan Gosling, Jessica Chastain, Kendall Jenner, Julia Garner, Francois, Henri Pinault, Swan, Gucci Ancora ”, ‘, de Sarno, Prada, Gabbana, Valentino, Michele, Jackie, —, Guccio Gucci, Daniele Venturelli, “ Rosso Ancora, ”, Sabato De Sarno, Gucci, Kering, Daria Werbowy, Tom Ford Gucci, embroideries de Sarno
Organizations:
Milan CNN, Brera, Gucci, Dolce
Locations:
Milan, ‘, Savoy, London, Naples