Gucci's magic garden opens fashion week
Models present creations from the Fay Autumn/Winter 2017 women collection during Milan's Fashion Week on Wednesday.[Photo/Agencies] |
The group, known for its signature field coats, brought out duffle coats, interpreted in various lengths and materials, adorned with furs and high collars and decorated with leather.
Models wore pleated short skirts with studded belts, leggings with zippers and masculine jackets decorated with embroidery, recalling the successful spring-summer collection."We took the French and Italian fashion from the 1990s and brought it back to our days," Tommaso Aquilani, one of the brand's two creative directors since 2010, told reporters ahead of the show.
Italian fashion industry revenues rose 1.9 percent last year, beating expectations, and are forecast to keep growing in 2017 despite uncertainty over the trade policies of the US administration and the impact of a Brexit, according to the national fashion association.
The country's top 140 fashion companies had total sales of almost 63 billion euros ($66 billion) in 2015, or 4 percent of Italy's GDP, according to a report by Mediobanca Securities research unit.