Subject: Gucci Spring/Summer 2009
From: Bez Dot <internationalbez@yahoo.com>
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Gucci's press notes invoked "the new way in which youth and luxury can seamlessly coexist." The notion that there might be a new generation hungry for her wares has been Frida Giannini's career impetus. "We don't care about the old folks talkin' 'bout the old style," indeed. Except it wasn't that "old" catwalk classic that soundtracked her show. Instead, Giannini enlisted MGMT's "Time to Pretend" ("this is our decision to live fast and die young") to help put her own thumbprint on the heritage of the house.
She offered her Tropicana club kids jeans in dégradé shades of sunset or printed with palm fronds; shirts decorated with toucans and parrots; perforated-leather safari shorts…The guy in the parka and striped jeans, fresh off his Vespa, looked almost out of place. He was from Giannini's old world. Now she has geographically relocated to a fantasyland of rich hippie/gypsy & Hawaii chic. Although the relative restraint of black-and-white jacquard tuxes with their tone-on-tone embroidery harked back to earlier collections when Frida was finding her way, the huge amethyst-and-malachite belt buckles she showed them with were definitely picking up signals from Planet MGMT. Tim Blanks Lol...BeZ Connoisseur
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