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Did you not catch the live stream of Gucci’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection on Weds, right here on missmalini.com??? How could you not!!! Anyways, I’ve got it all covered in this post 🙂 This collection heralds the new stylistic direction that Gucci will take going forward – and one with which I’m totally on board with. Come, check out the new Gucci!
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SO, what comes to mind when you think of this Italian fashion house? Slick, sexy styles with plunging necklines in brooding colours, non? For a start, gone were those dark colours to give way to Schiaparelli pink, coral, royal blue, teal, citrus yellow – and the obligatory black and white. And the exposed décolleté was replaced with high necklines and keyhole or plunging cutouts at the back.
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Frida Giannini, instead, looked to sleeves to create a statement, while keeping the rest of the silhouette streamlined. Kimono, flute, bishop, bell, ruffled… Erm, just about all kinds of sleeves under the sun were explored.
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Prints came with “exotic hints” by way of snakeskin and “Japanese wallpaper” sea anemone. Embellishments came in the form of lovely floral detailing on the necklines, which looks to be a spillover from Gucci’s Cruise 2013 collection, the precursor to this line.
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What I liked most about this collection is the understated nature of it. Some baroque, but patently fake, costume jewellery aside, there was none of the usual 24-karat accessories on view. Footwear came in the form of boots and cage sandals with Gucci’s signature horsebit hardware on the ankles. The handbags were limited to tone-on-tone clutches in patent of Plexiglass-like material – and in real departure for the brand, there wasn’t a GG in sight!! Now just need Louis Vuitton to do away with its thoroughly tacky LV monogram and ‘damier’ print, and all will be fine with the world, again.
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SO, what did I make of it all? The showy aesthetic makes me gag, so Gucci’s departure from it, as was displayed via this collection, is wholeheartedly welcome by me. I found the ruffles crawling down the arms and up the throat of gazar dresses a frill too far, the python-print numbers made me a tad uncomfortable – but it was still a lovely collection from Frida Giannini.
P.S. Here’s the video link to the show if you want to catch the movement of these pieces… 🙂
P.P.S. The collection will hit the Gucci stores in India in February 2013 🙂
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