I actually liked this collection. It actually had the young, cool, sexy energy that Ancora desperately lacked and it was actually designed too.
Like with Ancora, the long coats and leather pieces were the stars of the show, especially the lipstick-red leather coat on passage 10. I also liked the use of very short gloves and the ties styled with the plunging necklines. My only issue is that the silhouettes were a bit too trendy to create an authentic identity, which Gucci is desperately in need of.
The reuse of the Ancora soundtrack is lazy and a bit questionable. The addition of Lucky Love's "Masculinity" didn't help either. That said, I do like the idea of mirroring the menswear and womenswear, but the concept needs work. For the mirroring concept to actually be useful to Gucci, Sabato needs to sync the two together like this:
• SS24 Womenswear - Ancora
• AW24 Menswear + Womenswear - Theme II
• Cruise 25 - Theme III
• SS25 Menswear + Womenswear - Theme IV
• AW25 Menswear + Womenswear - Theme V
• and so on...
It doesn't make sense from several perspectives (creative, logistics, manufacturing, advertising, merchandising) to have that weird seasonal lag between the womenswear and the menswear when they're sharing the same ideas.