New hats are enriched with a maxi embroidered label featuring the French motto ‘Gucci quelle qu’en soit la saison’ which translates to ‘Gucci whatever the season,’ a play on the concept that Gucci can be worn at any time. Discover the #TowardsTheSun #GucciPreFall20 collection through link in bio. #AlessandroMichele

An ode to innocence, when as children we revelled in nature and life is the idea behind the new Gucci Pre-Fall 2020 campaign shot by shot by @alasdairmclellan with creative direction by @alessandro_michele and art direction by @christophersimmonds. #TowardsTheSun #GucciPreFall20 #AlessandroMichele

Featuring a contemporary take on the archival distinctly colored Baiadera stripes, looking at new messenger bags from the #TowardsTheSun #GucciPreFall20 collection designed by @alessandro_michele. Discover more through link in bio. #AlessandroMichele

6/6 • A line of @alessandro_michele’s diary, ‘In the Throes of What is Missing’ written on May 16, 2020: “Now that we are still apart, my love for fashion burns. Our species, after all, is like that: we love like crazy in the throes of what is missing.” Read #AlessandroMichele’s diary entries from the past few months through link in bio.

“It will be the time when we will learn to listen for the sound of the forest growing, at night.” An illustration by @alessandro_michele from his diary Appunti Dal Silenzio, Notes from the Silence, written during the past few months in Rome. #AlessandroMichele Read the diary entries through link in bio.

6/6 * In his last two diary entries for these times, ‘Community of Purpose’ on May 5, 2020 and ‘In the Throes of What is Missing’ on May 16, 2020, shown here in Italian, English to follow, @alessandro_michele states: “In this silence, that is a living thing, my listening embraces all the extraordinary people that I’m connected with. Recalibrating time, to set the pace at a human level, wants to be a promise of revived care towards this amazing community of purpose I proudly belong to. It’s my project, pro-jectum: the art of extending the existence in the future. A plural future, where “we” provides a foundation. A future that contains the hug that today we cannot give each other, but to which we will return with an expanded comprehension.” #AlessandroMichele Read his diary through link in bio.

5/6 • “I believe that we can build our tomorrow also starting from a renewed capacity of denomination. Here comes the desire to baptize our new encounters by naming them after a language that has marvelously ancient roots: classical music language. Accordingly, there will be symphonies, rhapsodies, madrigals, nocturnes, overtures, concerts and minuets in the constellation of my creative path. Music, after all, has the sacred power to produce reverberations and connections. It travels beyond the borders, reconnecting the fragility to the infinity.” A new path in fashion that leaves behind the paraphernalia of leitmotifs that colonized our prior world, according to @alessandro_michele in ‘The Sacred Power of Producing Reverberations’, his diary entry for May 3, 2020. #AlessandroMichele Read his diary through link in bio.

An illustration by @alessandro_michele represents a new beginning. The design is from his diary Appunti Dal Silenzio, Notes from the Silence, written during the past few months in Rome. #AlessandroMichele Read the diary entries through link in bio.

5/6 * @alessandro_michele announces a new beginning in ‘The Sacred Power of Producing Reverberations’ is his diary entry for May 3, 2020, shown here in Italian, to follow in English. “I will abandon the worn-out ritual of seasonalities and shows to regain a new cadence, closer to my expressive call. We will meet just twice a year, to share the chapters of a new story. Irregular, joyful and absolutely free chapters, which will be written blending rules and genres, feeding on new spaces, linguistic codes and communication platforms.” #AlessandroMichele Read his diary through link in bio.

4/6 • “That is why I decided to build a new path, away from deadlines that the industry consolidated and, above all, away from an excessive performativity that today really has no raison d’être. It’s a foundational act, audacious but necessary, that aims at building a new creative universe. A universe that essentialises itself in the subtraction of events and that oxygenates through the multiplication of sense.” @alessandro_michele writes in his diary, in an entry entitled ‘A New Creative Universe’ on May 2, 2020 in Rome. #AlessandroMichele Read the diary entries through link in bio.