’60s Mod and ’90s Glam: Gucci F/W 25 Went Again to Its Roots

For its fall/winter 2025 assortment, Gucci fashions walked by way of a darkish green-coated area with an enormous interlocking G emblem within the center. The colour alone—a departure from the black cherry that has outlined its latest seasons—set the tone for the subsequent chapter of the Italian home. With the latest information of artistic director Sabato De Sarno’s exit, show-goers waited with bated breath to seek out out if Gucci would announce an appointment at or simply earlier than the curtains rose, making it one of many extra anticipated exhibits of the week.

As a substitute, the gathering was introduced by Gucci’s design group who paid tribute to artistic administrators previous together with Alessandro Michele, Tom Ford, and sure, De Sarno, too. It was a tribute to the place the model has been and what makes Gucci, effectively, Gucci: a way of cinematic drama together with a wholesome dose of sprezzatura, or effortlessness. The present additionally marked the seventieth anniversary of the Horsebit Bag and the motif was sprinkled all through the gathering in creative new equipment that our editors are already eyeing. From an homage to Jackie O fashion to sultry ’90s glam, here is every part to know in regards to the Gucci fall 2025 present throughout Milan Trend Week.

From the Design Studio

With the good reshuffling of artistic director that is occurring throughout the trade proper now, you would not be blamed for pondering (hoping?) that we might have already got a brand new design head in at Gucci this season after Sabato De Sarno’s latest departure. Offered as a substitute by the Gucci design group, the autumn/winter 2025 assortment serves as a sort of interim interval earlier than a brand new rent steps in and as such, the group of in-house designers appeared from backstage to take a collective last bow. They coordinated in matching “Ancora Verde” sweatshirts in the identical verdant hue because the present’s setting, ushering in an thrilling new shade evolution from De Sarno’s “Gucci Ancora” cherry crimson.

A Celebration of the Horsebit’s seventieth Anniversary

When you ask us, there are few issues as symbolic of the Italian home because the horsebit motif and for its seventieth anniversary—the 1955 Horsebit Bag is when horsebits have been first launched—Gucci paid homage by way of a collection of equipment that featured all through the gathering. Horsebit particulars appeared as supersized metallic waist belts atop velvet pussy-bow clothes, as chocker necklaces layered over excessive silk necklines, as lengthy chain pendants, and whilst miniature dainty anklets that wrapped across the bottoms of patent pumps.

Nineteen Sixties Mod

Though the gathering traversed timelines and included nods to the Seventies and Nineteen Nineties, there was an simple overtone of the mod fashion related to the late ’60s. Tweed skirt fits confirmed up with shrunken 3/4-sleeve blazers, leather-based driving gloves appeared in saccharine pink, and shift-dress silhouettes outlined a lot of the runway, making quite a lot of references to Jackie O, a well known Gucci muse.

Nineteen Nineties Glamour

Many artistic administrators previous have put their mark on Gucci, however few have had the lasting affect that Tom Ford’s tenure has. The Gucci group paid homage to the imaginative and prescient of sultry glamour that Ford laid out so effectively throughout his time there within the ’90s. That got here by way of by way of lace-trimmed silk clothes and deep V-cut bodysuits that framed pendant necklaces, a good quantity of sheer lace, and dramatic fur outerwear, all beloved parts of Ford’s Gucci up to date for the trendy wearer in vivid acid tones like lime inexperienced, bubblegum pink, and royal purple.