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Alessandro Michele carried into pre-fall 2020 the restraint he had applied to decorative flourishes in Gucci’s spring/ summer 2020 collection, shining the spotlight instead on his mastery of colour and silhouette. As always, the collection was a glorious technicolour mash-up of gender and generational codes, with the clean, abbreviated lines of the 1960s sitting alongside the flowy, flared shapes of the ’70s; ’50s primness juxtaposed with a ’90s kind of sexual charge. The look may have been refined a little, but the message remained the same: Michele’s focus was still on the power of individuality and the beauty that comes from a myriad of identities. This message was
