Alessandro Michele’s “Notes from the Silence”: Fashion After COVID-19

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Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele's Notes from the Silence

A short post to start a short week: Gucci’s Creative Director, Alessandro Michele, has been posting the most vividly intimate notes on the Gucci Instagram account about fashion, creation, and humanity in the time of a pandemic. Building on our discussion of how fashion has been, and will continue to, change in light of COVID-10 (much more on that in this post), I wanted to leave his posts here for you. EVEN IF you’re not a Gucci fan, there’s a lot of value in Michele’s writings – see what you think!

You can also read them in their entirety on the Gucci website.

Only an artist could have written these: piercingly truthful, courageously delicate, and, yes, delightfully and indulgently sappy at times. Should you want a thoughtful, heartfelt, and progressive perspective on what the mess we’re in is doing, how it’s working on us, here it is.

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2/6 • “This present, then, entrusts us with important responsibilities. Everyone can take on responsibilities, according to one’s role and actions, to play a part in a constellation of molecular and widespread changes. As for me, in my own small way, I feel the urgent need to change a lot of things in the way I work. I have always been professionally inclined to change, after all, bringing with me a natural and joyful creative restlessness. But this crisis has somehow amplified such transformative urgency, which can’t be deferred anymore.” @alessandro_michele writes in his diary, an entry entitled About What we Would not Want to be the Same as it Was on April 7, 2020 in Rome. #AlessandroMichele. Read the diary entries through link in bio.

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5/6 • “I believe that we can build our tomorrow also starting from a renewed capacity of denomination. Here comes the desire to baptize our new encounters by naming them after a language that has marvelously ancient roots: classical music language. Accordingly, there will be symphonies, rhapsodies, madrigals, nocturnes, overtures, concerts and minuets in the constellation of my creative path. Music, after all, has the sacred power to produce reverberations and connections. It travels beyond the borders, reconnecting the fragility to the infinity.” A new path in fashion that leaves behind the paraphernalia of leitmotifs that colonized our prior world, according to @alessandro_michele in ‘The Sacred Power of Producing Reverberations’, his diary entry for May 3, 2020. #AlessandroMichele Read his diary through link in bio.

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What did you think of Michele’s writings? Comforting? Exciting? Blah? The best thing ever?

This won’t be the last time we’ll talk about the fashion’s response to the pandemic – Wednesday’s post will bring updates about concrete changes coming to the industry, so stay tuned!

love,

Stig

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