In the opening day of the Milan season, Frida Giannini presented Gucci’s Spring 2015 collection with psychedelic and funky yet polished styles that only Gucci could produce. Tapping into their 1970’s roots, the decade was a Gucci heyday and Frida Giannini, a Seventies girl at heart, must have delighted in the making of this spring collection. It was convincing from the opening look to the sequences when she put uniforms of a military and nautical nature through the blender with the hippie, free-wheeling spirit of 1970s prints and patchwork. The result was a strong collection that will be a huge trend for spring.
Opened with a neat white officer’s jackets with gold buttons and crisp, plain white dresses, a Gucci silk scarf knotted at the neck and a Jackie bag; this collection zinged with confidence. The Bohemia kicked in about halfway through with patchwork fur gilets, flippy oriental-print silks and sky-blue broderie anglaise dresses – the latter may sound sweet, but they still managed to expose a good deal of thigh. The palette – and those furs and suedes leaned more towards autumn than summer – something that seems to be less of a trend and more of the norm in many of the collections to date.
Head-to-toe denim, a Giannini favorite, had a time to shine within halter key-hole shirt-dresses and culottes while large brass button embellishments, matching scarves and suede boots accessorized and complimented each ensemble completing the theme entirely. The show was closed by trio of cocktail dresses in mandarin print silks trimmed with crystals, proposed by her as precious as an antique piano shawl. This collection had sass, glamour and commerciality in spades, but somehow the Gucci woman looked softer, more relaxed this season. Giannini is at her believable best when she not relied too much on theme, but to revisit Gucci female in all of her 70′s glory, she took the right step to repeat triumph. (Text Teuku Ajie)