Gucci F/W 14.15 Milan

[valliaddict]

Surprised people are loving this and the Tom Ford collection is being ripped apart in his thread???

While this is boring, at least it's still somewhat modern. Tom Ford's collection looked boring & dated imo. He's stuck in the year 2000.

I love the boots in this collection. That's the only thing I LOVED. The rest is palatable & forgettable.

 

[VogueDisciple93]

Why is she so obsessed with the 70's? There is only so much tackiness you can suck out of it. Awfully dull color palette, and such a literal interpretation of the decade. The animal print is nauseating, but not sure if it's worse than the bibbed looks. There were some great coats and leather skirts - the biker jacket is quite great. But another disappointment from her.

 

[bluestar]

The last collection I truly loved from Gucci was F/W 2012. Now that was a beautiful collection. This show was just..."Meh". Some pieces were cute and I liked the boots and a couple of the coats but overall, it is pretty boring and forgettable.

 

[vandekamp]

It's definitely safe.. but I love it.

 

[jeanclaude]

Frida killed the Gucci star...

 

[IsabelMarantBoy]

I absolutely loved it, but then again I am a sucker for trapeze and shift dresses

I don't get why everyone keeps saying "70's" when this is more of the 1960's mod look.

 

[lowfive1715]

Boring and lackluster. She should just give in a take a page from the Tom Ford handbook of design.

 

[Spike413]

Surprised people are loving this and the Tom Ford collection is being ripped apart in his thread???

Even better, that collection has been labeled dated and this one hasn't. I can't even

I'm not entirely sure where people are seeing 70s here, since it's pretty literally a mid-late 60s look going on, one which I'm definitely not feeling. I think Frida and the bosses who tell her what to do are confusing the idea of "taking inspiration from" with "recreating".

And lets be honest, the only archives Frida is trolling around in are the ones Tom Ford built. The candy colored mohair coats and horsebit patent leather go-go boots look an awful lot like his Fall 1995 collection.

 

[Spike413]

While this is boring, at least it's still somewhat modern. Tom Ford's collection looked boring & dated imo. He's stuck in the year 2000.
I love the boots in this collection. That's the only thing I LOVED. The rest is palatable & forgettable.

You're too much!

Logic tells me that clothes which look stuck in the mid-late 60s surpass clothes that look stuck in the year 2000 on the "dated" scale, but then I suppose I'd rather be one decade behind than five.

 

[BoeingGuy82]

You're too much!

Logic tells me that clothes which look stuck in the mid-late 60s surpass clothes that look stuck in the year 2000 on the "dated" scale, but then I suppose I'd rather be one decade behind than five.

^

 

[disco54]

I absolutely loved it, but then again I am a sucker for trapeze and shift dresses

I don't get why everyone keeps saying "70's" when this is more of the 1960's mod look.

Exactly! There is nothing 70s about this. Its very 1966-68, Mod.
70s fashion is quite different. People need to learn their fashion history B)

 

[balmain1914]

Boring and lackluster.
Tom Ford's boring collection even beats this.

 

[valliaddict]

You're too much!

Logic tells me that clothes which look stuck in the mid-late 60s surpass clothes that look stuck in the year 2000 on the "dated" scale, but then I suppose I'd rather be one decade behind than five.

Call me crazy, but I think there's a reason why designers still take inspiration from the sixties while Tom Ford is the only one stuck in the year 2000. A clean looking pea coat will always look fresh compared to a white fur tank top or a brown & purple jacket paired with fishnet stocking & knee-high boots. I'd rather be a 60s girl in the year 2014 than someone who looks like they just got off the set of a Destiny's Child video. Just sayin'.

 

[Littleathquakes]

The difference is Tom Ford looked tacky as hell while this is desirable catalog looks from a by-gone era. It's really missing only the bee-hive hair. I see in my head those vintage and faded catalogs, where the paper was really thick and the ink wasn't spared at all because back then nobody cared about recycling.

Don't get me wrong, I love a nice dose of nostalgia, but as Heatheranne says, this would've been acceptable from a smaller house, not Gucci. So it doesn't get a pass.

 

[FakeFlower]

How did not anyone comment on the world's ugliest glasses ever made?

 

[lightblue]

It feels different or I'm just really used to the flashy clothes she usually present.

 

[ad31214]

This is probably just me and I know its just a styling choice, but I can't stand the jeans that make all the girls legs look so short and their torsos really long. Other than that I love all the leather dresses and that light green color is stunning, especially in leather.

I always find myself hating Gucci's spring collections and absolutely adoring their fall ones.

 

[Spike413]

Call me crazy, but I think there's a reason why designers still take inspiration from the sixties while Tom Ford is the only one stuck in the year 2000. A clean looking pea coat will always look fresh compared to a white fur tank top or a brown & purple jacket paired with fishnet stocking & knee-high boots. I'd rather be a 60s girl in the year 2014 than someone who looks like they just got off the set of a Destiny's Child video. Just sayin'.

And yet that blinged out, intentionally excessive, teetering on tacky aesthetic is just as much "in fashion" now as a clean, standard peacoat is.

The difference, however, is that one aesthetic is totally tuned in to the zeitgeist (OTT, bordering on tacky and "dated") and one is merely a blip on the radar that doesn't directly relate to what's going on in fashion and outside of it on a broader scale (this collection).

 

[daoudmac]

Keep going back

I have gone back and looked at this collection several times. Very austere but sumptuous, the red fur dress, the details even in whats a simple line. The fabrics look incredible and that for me along with the silhouette, the detail and colors makes for an amazing collection. No matter what period it was inspired by, it did it well IMO with a heavy dose of chic..

 

[FreddyH]

I haven't been impressed (or really even taken the time to take a second look at) a Gucci collection in many years, but this show was so phenomenal. Such a cool, wearable, and impressive group of pieces. I love the palette so much, and the beautifully tailored suits with the fur pieces slung over the shoulders are so awesome! I'm always a sucker for anything 60s mod/Marianne Faithful with a dash of Brian Jones era Rolling Stones. I'm really surprised at all the criticisms people are throwing out over this show. If anything, I think Frida was digging back into the house's roots, and designed a collection suiting of their circa 60's jetsetting clientele, whose Gucci luggage was a sign of status and luxury. Outside of the context of a fashion show, I think if we saw a girl wearing one of these looks walking down a city street, we'd take notice and find her to be cool, intriguing, and would strike us as a woman worth knowing!