MILAN, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Fashionistas saw twice as much at Gucci’s Milan Fashion Week show on Friday, with the Italian luxury brand shocking the public by sending identically dressed twins for the catwalk.
Creative director Alessandro Michele paid tribute to the twins and their bond for the show, called “Gucci Twinsburg,” a nod to the Ohio town that hosts an annual festival for twins.
The presentation began with individual models walking down the catwalk, before a wall was raised to show their brothers or sisters on the other side in exactly the same outfits.
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The brothers held hands as they walked together in a surprise finale.
“I am the son of two mothers: Mommy Eralda and Mommy Giuliana. Two extraordinary women who made their twins the definitive seal of their existence,” Michele said in the show’s notes.
“They lived in the same body. They dressed and combed the same way. They magically reflected each other. One multiplied the other. That was my world, perfectly doubled and duplicated.”
Michele’s designs began with a black blazer jacket paired with suspender pant legs, followed by a bright red belted dress. Biker jackets were paired with cut-out skirts, shiny silver jackets were cropped and had wide shoulders, while prints on colorful dresses featured wrenches and bolts.
Models also wore floor-length trench coats, kimono-inspired florals and ruffled silk dresses, among an eclectic mix of looks. Accessories included long beaded jewelry and sunglasses, leopard-print tights and snakeskin boots.
“It is exactly the impossibility of the perfectly identical that nurtures the magic of the twins,” Michele said.
“Twinsburg plays this game, producing a tension in the relationship between original and copy. As if by magic, the garments are duplicated. They seem to lose their singularity status.
“The effect is alienating and ambiguous. Almost a crack in the idea of identity, and then the revelation: the same clothes exude different qualities on seemingly identical bodies.”
Milan Fashion Week runs through Monday.
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Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien
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