Twin picks for Gucci

Opposite. Different. These are some of the words of a rhyme by twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen which were, however, read during the event as a Shakespeare play by Marianne Faithfull. The soundtrack quickly turned into a story to narrate the new Maison of the Double G. The Double G, twin letters like the mother and the aunt of Alessandro Michele, the creative mind of the Maison part of Kering group, like the 68 pairs of twin models (50 women and 18 men) who hit the runway, first individually in the two halls and then together when the dividing wall was lifted up.

«It represents a reflection on the other that lives within you, of what you meet when you dig deep in yourself,» Alessandro Michele told MFF. «My mother had a twin, I called both of them mom. I was born in Rome, a city born from a pair of twins…». The models take their twin’s hands in the final runway, they walk with aerial clothes with metallic reflections, paisley patterns, cropped pants that seems suspended in the air, with small metallic fringes dangling from sunglasses on those faces, enhanced by jeweled chains, with those small bags that recall an equestrian world, with reference to archival models from the 1980s.

However, this twin passion is no mystery, with traces found along the way: the latest ad campaign inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s films with images of the twin girls from The Shining or the pictures of Jared Leto at the last Met Gala in New York, in which Michele and the american actor were virtually identical, from looks to hair to grooming. "I am not usually comfortable going to events, and I talked to my therapist about it," the designer continued. «He explained that when we are with another one of us, we all are stronger. That is the great power of the other. And right now, we need to take that other person's hand».

From Twin Peaks to twin picks, the twin choices, designed to walk the path alongside oneself. Between childhood memories, such as jeweled teddy bears and the return of the Gremlins either on bags or as decoration of the bottom of a dress, as well as references to the Italian homosexual liberation movement Fuori! born in 1971 in Turin. «We all have the right to freedom," Michele continued. "The elections? They are the last curtain of this freedom taken away over the past years. It is a complex topic. I feel the need to be free».

Judgment. «Fashion is a slippery language, a delicate and powerful matter. If you move something it changes meaning. Throughout the collection I added archetypes, objects that make clothes attractive. I am a slave to objects. Am I a serial accumulator? I have been for years». His personal narrative merges with the catwalk, which is set free with the fashion show. Alessandro Michele's passion can be seen to have deep roots, born in his DNA, from life. And season after season, words spring out more and more clearly from the clothes, mental paths that fearlessly reveal themselves in a very cathartic way. (All rights reserved)