Wednesday, September 19: Gucci
Designer: Frida Gianinni

• “An ‘aristographic’ look featured high necklines and sharp cuts which seduced in their simplicity.” {AFP}
• “After New York and London, it’s Milan’s turn to have a say as to how women will dress for the spring-summer 2013. If Gucci is any indication, there is sure to be a lot of color in their warm weather lives.” {The Associated Press}
• “A good combination of excess and simplicity.” {The Cut/New York Magazine}
• “These were clothes that were all about life in an effusive environment, a place where the clear light makes everything seem bigger, louder and more gregarious.” {The Daily Beast/Newsweek}
• “Are you ready for a fuscia pantsuit? How about a palm-print pajama pant?” {Daily Front Row}
• “Depending on your cultural heritage, it was reminiscent of those grand American hostesses at play in Palm Beach–or of Margot from The Good LIfe .” {The Daily Telegraph}
• “A triumvirate of pitch-perfect trend hits. With high-octane colour, minimalism and the season’s go-to era of choice, Giannini’s Gucci could not have been more in step.” {ELLEuk.com}
• “No doubt about it, Giannini designed for the bold, impactful, and confident woman; one we can see in red-carpet stunners like Jennifer Lopez and Zoe Saldana.”  {FabSugar}
• “An aristocratic vision of next season, a technically complicated display of triple layered chiffon and long-necked highborn style.” {Fashion Wire Daily}
• “Frida Giannini must be in a good mood. The sunny palette she employed for Gucci’s Spring 2013 collection is indicative of an optimistic state of mind–and after last season’s rich, glamorous outing of all black everything, this house needed a happy jolt of color.” {fashionologie}
• “This was minimalist fashion at its most retro.” {Grazia Daily Magazine}
• “Many designers in London started their recent shows with a flash of clean white. Not Gucci. At the first blockbuster show of the Milan season, the Italian label hit its stride from the off with a strong opening series of outfits in head-to-toe shocking pink, which for spring/summer 2013 the Italian fashion label is calling ‘sharp azalea.’” {The Guardian}
• “A bright and vital collection.” {The Independent}
• “With vivid color, elegant silhouettes and a back window on the body, Frida Giannini sent out her best show yet for Gucci–opening the Milan summer 2013 on a high note. The show … was an orgy of gorgeousness, inspired by the refined elegance of the palazzo principessas in Gucci’s heyday. But the clothes never seemed retro nor vulgar.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “Paging Marella Agnelli and Marisa Berenson. At Gucci today, Frida Giannini conjured their glory days (and those of early Italian ready-to-wear), as seen through the lenses of photographers like Richard Avedon and Gian Paolo Barbieri.” {Style.com}
• “Me, I’m calling it Gucci’s Jacqueline Susann collection. It’s what the late Valley of the Dolls author would wear to a spring 2013 party in her honor.” {Speakeasy/The Wall Street Journal}
• “Filter[ed] a long-lost memory of late-sixties and early-seventies couturelike principessa glamour.” {Vogue.com}
• “A colour bombshell.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “Infused high glamour with confident ease.” {WWD}