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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jess Cartner-Morley

INSANE: A quieter gender fluidity marks gucci s return to the milan runway | Vintage Vibes

model on the runway in Milan
Gucci brought a clarity and simplicity to Milan fashion week with Alessandro Michele’s fall-winter women's collection. Photograph: Mourad Balti Touati/EPA

Gender fluidity is not just Harry Styles in a feather boa. It can also be a woman in an elegantly oversized double-breasted trouser suit, like the model who opened Gucci’s first Milan fashion week show in two years.

“Seven years ago I designed a menswear collection, and everyone told me I had invented gender fluidity,” shrugged the designer Alessandro Michele backstage. “I was like, my definition of masculinity is broad, OK?” (Funny, now, to recall the furore caused by a man in a pussy-bow blouse, as recently as 2015.)

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