Where is alessandro michele now
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Gucci’s new creative director, the unknown Alessandro Michele, is a lot like the woman he champions: daring, curiously compelling—and with a streak of mystery and eccentricity.
When Alessandro Michele was appointed the new creative director of Gucci at the beginning of this year, the fashion firmament expressed a certain surprise at the positioning of a relative unknown at the helm of the storied billion-dollar Italian luxury brand. No one, however, was more surprised than the 42-year-old Michele himself. With the quirky, long-haired looks of a Merovingian king and a personal style that runs to flower-sprigged Lisa Corti hippie blouses, neckerchiefs that he scissors from lengths of Indian silks, and fistfuls of antique rings, Michele could not be further removed from the sleekly controlled understatement of his predecessor Frida Giannini, who left the company abruptly in January with her partner, then–Gucci CEO Patrizio di Marco.
“I wasn’t even on the list,” Michele says, referring to the presumed roster of high-profile industry talents whose names had been bandied about f
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Alessandro Michele, the secular messiah who redesigned fashion
Michele no doubt contributed to a new perspective on the relationship between fashion design and the broader realm of culture, whose affinities have since been rediscovered and widely cherished. Many have been the occasions in which such synergy was manifested, including projects like the Disco Diva festival, the production of Canzonette, an album of cover songs taken from the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the experience of the Gucci Circolo – clubhouse environments with reading rooms, rare book pop-ups, juke boxes and cafes – but also the philanthropic support of exhibitions, like “Fashioning Masculinities” at London V&A.
Not to forget the attentive eye directed towards the future of communication, with a plethora of Instagram filters and Gucci Vault, the Florentine maison’s corner of metaverse strongly wanted by Michele as a conceptual bridge between the past and future of the industry. And also the involvement in the brand of Glen Lutchford, one of the historical photographers of magazine The
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Alessandro Michele, the whole story of the well-known Roman designer
From his beginnings to his 7 years as Gucci's creative director: let's get to know the renowned designer and his bond with Florence better
"There are times when paths part because of the different perspectives each of us may have. Today ends for me an extraordinary journey, lasting more than twenty years, within a company to which I have tirelessly dedicated all my love and creative passion. During this long period Gucci has been my home, my adopted family. To this extended family, to all the individuals who have looked after and supported it, goes my most heartfelt thanks, my biggest and most emotional hug. Together with them I have wished, dreamed, imagined. Without them, none of what I have built would have been possible. To them, then, my most sincere wish: may you continue to feed on your dreams, the subtle and intangible matter that makes life worth living. May you continue to nourish yourselves with poetic and inclusive imagery, remaining faithful to your values. May you always live by your pa
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