Chiara Scelsi Poses in Michelle Alessandra's 'Hortus Deliciarum' Jewelry Collection

Chiara Scelsi Poses in Michelle Alessandra's 'Hortus Deliciarum' Jewelry Collection

Model Chiara Scelsi poses in ‘Tesoros Ocultos’ (Hidden Treasure), a Gucci editorial focused on Gucci’s first high jewelry collection ‘Hortus Deliciarum’. Alessandro Michele personally selected unique gems and motifs that express his poetic vision of fine jewelry in a collection that includes two-hundred jewels, mainly one-off pieces, and evolves around three main themes viewed through the prism of a mythical garden.

The ‘Hortus Deliciarum’ jewelry collection finds its place in Gucci’s new boutique in Place Vendôme. It features the three themes of Alessandro Michele’s vision: 1) paying homage to eternal love’s classic emblems. 2) honoring the majesty of the animal world; and 3) a focus on the solitaire ring, reinterpreted according to a flamboyant allure.

Anya Holdstock captures the Gucci sensory extravaganza for Vogue Espana November 2019./ Hair by Christoph Hasenbein; makeup by Marion Robine

'Camp' Explained In Gucci's Pre-Fall 2019 Ad Campaign In Advance Of May 6 Met Gala + Art Exhibit

Camp Explained In Gucci's Pre-Fall 2019 Ad Campaign In Advance Of May 6 Met Gala + Art Exhibit

Photographer Glen Luchford shoots Gucci’s pre-fall 2019 ad campaign, continuing with the brand’s wildly successful camp approach to fashion under creative director Alessandro Michele. Jonathan Kaye styles models Delphi Mcnicol, Dwight Hoogendijk, Emmanuel Adjaye, Matïss Rucko, Matthew Petersen, Paul Hendrik Piho, Unia Pakhomova, Walter Pearce, and William Valente against the backdrop of old-world Italian traditions.

In advance of the Gucci-sponsored May 6 Met Gala in New York, Alessandro Michele has explained that ‘Camp: Notes on Fashion’, open to the public May 9 through September 8, 2019, is inspired by Susan Sontag’s seminal 1964 essay ‘Notes on Camp’. Sontag’s essay “perfectly expresses what camp truly means to me: the unique ability of combining high art and pop culture.”

Alessandro Michele and Glen Luchford Recreate Noah's Ark For Gucci Cruise 2019 Campaign

Alessandro Michele and Glen Luchford Recreate Noah's Ark For Gucci Cruise 2019 Campaign

Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele is joined by long-time collaborator Glen Luchford in a trip back to biblical times for the #Guccigothic Cruise 2019 campaign. The Gucci-wearing community lives Amish style on the land, sharing the natural landscape in harmony with animals. Domesticated farm animals live with tigers, elephants and deer, as humans buld the giant ark for the Biblical flood coming soon.

The Gucci team actually built an art for this epic campaign, with art direction by Christopher Simmonds. The campaign video is totally masterful and creates major context around the still images.

Faye Dunaway & Soko Enjoy Old Hollywood For Gucci Sylvie Bag Campaign, Shot By Petra Collins

Faye Dunaway & Soko Enjoy Old Hollywood For Gucci Sylvie Bag Campaign, Shot By Petra Collins

Academy award-winning actor Faye Dunaway makes sweet music with French muscian and actor Soko for Gucci Sylvie Bag's Fall Winter 2018.19 campaign, lensed by Petra Collins. Gucci's Alessandro Michele is in charge of creative direction for the over-the-top glimpse into the lives of the ultra-wealthy, with art direction from Christopher Simmonds. 

The Gucci Sylvie Bag video is shot from Soko's perspective in this lavish, old-Hollywood video.

Gucci's Alessandro Michele Taps Ignasi Monreal In 'Utopian Fantasy' Spring/Summer 2018 Campaign

Gucci's Alessandro Michele Taps Ignasi Monreal In 'Utopian Fantasy' Spring/Summer 2018 Campaign

Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele continued the brand's undiluted embrace of extravagant artistry, unveiling yet another brilliant ad campaign for Spring/Summer 2018. This season Gucci taps Ignasi Monreal to create digital paintings that mimic great paintings from the Pre-Raphealite era to the Renaissance to Surrealism and beyond.

The January 2018 launch campaign is meant to conjure a “Utopian Fantasy” with a focus on three elements: the earth, the sea, and the sky in a series of imaginative landscapes. The beautiful works would be just at home in a sci-fi magazine as they would in a museum, making this campaign yet another tribute to an explosion of creative artistry in the fashion world -- a high-voltage sip of optimism and confidence in our Trumpian world. 

Eye: Gucci Kisses Fur Goodbye, Launches Collab With Artist Helen Downie & Gets Dapper Dan In Harlem

Eye: Gucci Kisses Fur Goodbye, Launches Collab With Artist Helen Downie & Gets Damn Dapper In Harlem

Gucci amps up its collaborative mood with a series of brilliant collabs, including Alessandro Michele's own utilization of Elton John's archives for his spring/sumer 2018 collection. Featured here is Gucci's teamup with artist Helen Downie -- aka Unskilled Worker. The 40-piece capsule collection of ready-to-wear, shoes, bags, silks and accessories launched on October 11. 

Images from the campaign include models Stella Lucia, Ellia Sophia, Mia Gruenwald and Unia Pakhomova captured by Clara Balzary. 

Gucci's creative director discovered Downie on Instagram. The artist discovered painting without any formal training at age 48, rising to international fame in two years. Her creative breakthrough came in 2013 after a battle with cancer and a detox from alcohol and drugs. 

Mick Rock Shoots Gucci Cruise 2018 Campaign In Rome With An Eyeful Of Eclectic Talent

Mick Rock Shoots Gucci Cruise 2018 Campaign In Rome With An Eyeful Of Eclectic Talent

Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele returns to his beloved Rome for Gucci's Cruise 2018 campaign. The eclectic eye-candy images feature a fashionable, creative talent gaggle of 'real people in real places -- often their homes' shot by British photographer Mick Rock. 

Barbara Alberti, Francesco Bianconi, Alessandro Borghi, Silvia Calderoni, Marina Cicogna, Lucio Corsi, Caterina de Renzis Sonnino, Ginevra Elkann, Francesca Romana Fontana,
Rosa Gambino, Sonia Hang, Miriam Leone, Gabriele Lepera, Betani Mapunzo, Chiara Mastroianni, Sofia Mattioli, Mosè Auer-Nozza, Fabrizio and Stefano Occhipinti, Giulia Salvatore, Valerio Sirna, Stefano Torossi, Lucrezia Valia and Matteo Zoppis are part of the campaign.

Rock gained fame documenting stars Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Blondie, Talking Heads, the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, "in addition to being David Bowie’s official photographer during the artist’s Ziggy Stardust incarnation', writes WWWD. The photographer’s experience around trend-setting rock stars also included the creations of a range of memorable album covers, such as Lou Reed’s “Transformer,” Iggy and the Stooges’ “Raw Power” and Queen’s “Queen II.”

A short movie directed by Chuck Grant will be released both in 60-second and 120-second formats. The sensory-drenched collage centers on the campaign's talents and details of the collection juxtaposed with full-framed clips to multiple, old homemade movie-inspired takes -- all set to the soundtrack of Arthur Russell’s “Place I Know/Kid Like You” song.

Glen Luchford Eyes Gucci's Fall/Winter 2017 Campaign As Intergalactic Sci-Fi Fantasy

Glen Luchford Eyes Gucci's Fall/Winter 2017 Campaign As Intergalactic Sci-Fi Fantasy

On Tuesday, after a long tease of its upcoming Glen-Luchford-shot Fall 2017 campaign, humanoids, aliens, robots and earthlings came together. Gucci unveiled the short film #gucciandbeyond, a montage rich in 'Star Trek' references and “motifs from sci-fi of the 50s and 60s,” according to the description on Instagram. Gucci’s latest menswear and womenswear collections reinforce fall's fashion message. W Magazine writes:

The campaign pushes Gucci’s Fall 2017 collection farther into space than even its runway managed. Alessandro Michele showed his massive, co-ed presentation in a neon-lit plexiglass tunnel, soundtracked by Jóhann Jóhansson’s “The Rocket Builder,” a song that also featured prominently in the Netflix science fiction series The OA. In the Glen Luchford and Christopher Simmonds-devised video, Michele’s futuristic vision finally gets the set pieces it deserves. And, it turns out, aliens wear Gucci pretty well.

Gucci's Alessandro Michele Tells His Creative Director Story To Vogue July 2015

Vogue magazine’s Hamish Bowles interviews Gucci’s new creative director Alessandro Michele, describing him as ‘a lot like the woman he champions: daring, curiously compelling — and with a streak of mystery and eccentricity’.

“Fashion is about creating emotion—it’s not necessarily rational,” explains new Gucci CEO Marco Bizzarri, whose first scheduled hour-long meeting with Michele—at the designer’s apartment—segued into three hours discussing the future of the brand. “I thought, Why should I look for someone else when he can translate the heritage—and when the values of Gucci are in his veins?”

The Gucci design team has recently led a peripatetic life. Ford centered it in London, where he lives, while Giannini moved operations to Florence (birthplace of Guccio Gucci, who founded the company in 1921)—and much of the business side is based in Milan, where the company is in the process of relocating to a Mussolini-era aircraft hangar where Michele will stage his collections. Michele, though, prefers Rome. “There is something about the culture of the fifties and the cinema,” he says of his hometown. “But I also need to travel. I need to go to London. You have everything there—present, past, future, exhibitions, theater. And real eccentricity is still very much alive with the English—the kids in the East End, beautiful English old ladies.” He also loves contemporary Los Angeles dressing (“the way they put things together—it’s not chic, but it’s inspiring”) and New York, where he shops vintage stores and where he will present his 2016 resort collection—“a couture show in a garage,” as he explains. “I love couture, but the other side of me loves the street, and I think the mix of these two can create something new. When I go to New York and London, I love to see how very brave the young people are—they have no rules. Even the superchic ladies of the past, like Princess Irene Galitzine, had supermodern attitudes. Today they’d all be into street style.”

Tami Williams & Mica Arganaraz are styled by Camilla Nickerson in images by Jamie Hawkesworth