Gucci surprises with twin-themed show at Milan Fashion Week

MILAN, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Fashionistas noticed double at Gucci’s Milan Vogue Week present on Friday, with the Italian luxurious label stunning audiences by sending identically-dressed twins down the catwalk.

Inventive director Alessandro Michele paid homage to twins and their bond for the present, referred to as “Gucci Twinsburg”, a nod to the Ohio city which holds a yearly competition for twins.

The presentation started with single fashions strolling down the catwalk, earlier than a wall was lifted to indicate their brothers or sisters on the opposite aspect in the very same outfits.

The siblings held fingers as they walked collectively in a placing finale.

“I’m a son of two moms: mum Eralda and mum Giuliana. Two extraordinary girls who made their twinship the last word seal of their existence,” Michele mentioned in present notes.

“They lived in the identical physique. They dressed and combed their hair in the identical method. They have been magically mirrored. One multiplied the opposite. That was my world, completely double and doubled.”

Michele’s designs started with a black blazer jacket teamed with suspender-like trouser legs, adopted by a shiny purple belted gown. Biker jackets have been paired with skirts bearing cutouts, shimmering silver jackets have been cropped and had massive shoulders, whereas prints on vibrant clothes depicted spanners and bolts.

Fashions additionally wore floor-length trench coats, floral kimono-inspired designs, and ruffled silk clothes, amongst an eclectic mixture of seems. Equipment included lengthy beaded jewelry and sun shades, leopard print tights and snakeskin boots.

“It is precisely the impossibility of the peerlessly similar that nourishes the magic of twins,” Michele mentioned.

“Twinsburg performs this recreation, producing a stress within the relationship between authentic and replica. As if by magic, garments duplicate. They appear to lose their standing of singularity.

“The impact is alienating and ambiguous. Nearly a rift within the thought of identification, after which, the revelation: the identical garments emanate totally different qualities on seemingly similar our bodies.”

Milan Vogue Week runs till Monday.

Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian, Enhancing by Rosalba O’Brien

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