Gucci Exhibit

 Today after class I walked to the Piazza della Signoria to visit what is called the "Gucci Garden."  I had heard about this exhibit from one of the students at Alberobello.  It was a very interesting, immersive experience.

First, you walk up the staircase which has been painted with graffiti and lots of positive messages:

You know, "Think peace," "No pollution," "Fashion cares" ;-)

Then you walk into this set where a woman is riding a subway in a fabulous Gucci ensemble.  This is an example of Urban Romanticism from the Fall/Winter 2015 campaign which asked what it meant to be contemporary.  Gucci posed the rather philosophical question, "Are the truly 'modern' those who can the distance necessary to accurately perceive the moment they're in?"  There should be a mandate that fashion houses, of all things, should not be allowed to pose questions that the smartest of the lot can simply not answer.  But, there you have it:

From there you walk into a room where the flood and Noah's ark is being reenacted, along with pairs of animals running for the boat.  The humans are dressed in Gucci Gothic from the 2019 show which was all about dreamers looking for a new paradise, an Eden remade.  Multi-cultural, non-binary, non-judgmental only with very expensive clothes:

Then you walk into this room of TV sets featuring very unusual-looking people wearing Gucci lipstick:

And then it's on the Gucci does Soul Train:

And then you calm down and enter the luscious, Baroque hall of mirrors:

And then, fashion deconstructed.  All the parts without the body.  No model.  Naomi was being difficult.

And then two Gucci fiends in the bathroom at the club:

Then, finally, people who collect weird things: clocks, Gucci shoes, butterflies:

And if you are so inspired, there is a gift shop and boutique:

It was a very innovative and fun exhibit, though you left not really remembering any of the fashion.  There wasn't one outfit that hit me as being gorgeous.  But just outside of the Piazza is this, and it IS gorgeous:

I think I will let Dante get the last word on this one.  This is one of several plaques at the Palazzo Vecchio with quotes from The Divine Comedy:

"Oh which I saw by those who are undone by their pride."