Gucci Unveiled Its Latest Resort 2023 Collection
Alessandro Michele’s Cruise 2023 “Cosmogonie” collection for Gucci was all about constellations and stars.
Gucci presented its latest Cruise 2023 collection in Italy. The Creative Director Alessandro Michele took us on a mystical journey into the cosmos with his new collection, showcased at the dreamy Castel del Monte in Italy. Entitled “Cosmogonie,”, the brand took inspiration from constellations, showcasing garments with details referencing the stars and magical myths.
Alessandro also found inspiration from German philosopher Walter Benjamin – “A collector of quotations.”
“He discover them (quotations) from the depths of the sea and he brings them back on the surface of the water as rare and precious pearls. He resembles them like shreds of thoughts that need to be recomposed, reconstructed, updated.”
“If any thinker was able to keep together things that were so distant in time and space, rearticulating them into bursting constellations, it was Walter Benjamin. To this man, who couldn’t survive without his quotations, my gratitude,” said Michele.
“Cosmogonie” or “Cosmogony”, (translated from French) is about the study or the history of the universe—a lofty goal that only a designer like Alessandro Michele took us on as the theme of his latest Gucci collection.
“A term that he turns into a philosophical concept. What can seem, at first sight, atomized and dispersed, like the stars in the sky, through Benjamin’s eyes becomes an assembly of complicity: a connective structure that lights up the darkness through the epiphany of a constellation.” Alessandro said.
“I’ve been pondering a lot about what it means to be a fashion designer today, in 2022. It’s no longer about imagining a dress for a particular woman or for a specific event. Today, making a collection is about assembling a succession of images, colours, shapes, attitudes or faces. The creative process is difficult to explain. It remains very mysterious.”
His personal set of associations of ideas composed his own creative constellation. At the press conference, Alessandro explained that he was linking his approach to the work of the early 20th century philosopher Walter Benjamin, who constructed his thinking using collections of ideas, quotes and concepts. It’s a mode of thought in a constellation.
The collection itself was just incredible. On the long catwalk we saw beautiful long velvet dressed embroidered with sequins and with evocative cuts and short black dresses worn with laced thigh-high boots and feathered opera gloves.
Moreover, there were also 1940s silhouettes – large capes and elegant suits evoking Greta Garbo – and long chiffon-draped evening gowns embroidered with flashy sequins accompanied of luxury brand, were front and centre, with handbags inspired by jewellery boxes, ballerina shoes in shiny varnish and clustered jewellery charms.
