Gucci's new creative director plunges into menswear with slightly shimmery, subversive classics
Hot off the Taylor Swiftโs red-carpet triumph for Gucci in glittering green, the Italian brandโs creative director Sabato De Sarno plunged into his menswear debut on the first day of Milan Fashion Week with somewhat shimmery, slightly subversive classics.
Fashionable Grammys: Doja Cat, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles' boas
Doja Cat arrives at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Sunday, March 14, 2021. He was on hand in person but earlier created an Instagram red carpet moment with his daughter since no kids were allowed at the Los Angeles show. โI actually created a step and repeat and a red carpet,โ she told reporters during a virtual news conference before the show. AdDue to pandemic precautions, the โred carpetโ was not the usual mass of cameras and TV crews. AdAll three wore Gucci.
VIRUS TODAY: California faces closures; jobless cutoff looms
(AP Photo/Pamela Hassell)Hereโs whatโs happening Saturday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAYโ The coronavirus surge is threatening to overwhelm hospitals in California. Five San Francisco Bay Area counties have new stay-at-home orders that will take effect Sunday. โ Jobless Americans face a bleak predicament if Congress fails to extend two unemployment programs that are set to expire the day after Christmas. ICYMI: In Boise, Idaho, an urgent-care clinic has been revamped into a facility for coronavirus patients as infections and deaths surge, showing how a crush of virus patients is straining intertwined health care systems. ___Find APโs full coverage of the coronavirus pandemic at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic.
Zegna, Gucci rethink physical shows from digital platforms
Pedestrians pass by a screen showing a Versace model, during the Milan Digital Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, July 16, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)MILAN The coronavirus-provoked fashion runway rethink was in full swing on the last day of Milans first Digital Fashion Week. Ermengildo Zegnas so-called Phygital presentation was a hybrid of physical and digital experiences that could be the harbinger for runway shows to come for the brand celebrating 110 years. Gucci, meanwhile, has already announced that it will eschew destination runway shows and whittle down its calendar to two events a year, in a bid for prudence. And this is my experiment.The digital experiment this fashion week -- conceived out of epidemiological necessity -- had the effect of emphasizing the absence of energy normally generated by the live shows.
Gucci, Saint Laurent seek radical redo of fashion calendars
FILE - In this Feb.25, 2020 file photo, model Kaia Gerber leads other models as they wear creations for the Saint Laurent fashion collection during Women's fashion week Fall/Winter 2020/21 presented in Paris. The coronavirus lockdown -- which has hit luxury fashion houses on their bottom lines -- has also given pause to rethink the pace of fashion. The coronavirus lockdown, which has hit luxury fashion houses on their bottom lines, has also given pause to rethink the pace of fashion, offering the possibility to return to less hectic, more considered periods of creativity and production and perhaps consumption. Armani also has called for a major rethink of changes in luxury fashion during his 45 years as a stalwart of Milan fashion. The Italian Fashion Chamber is promoting three days of online presentation of mens and womens collections in July to substitute the regular June calendar.
Pomeranian named Gucci saves owner from house fire
Nine News via CNN(CNN) - There's a new hero in the Australian city of Sydney -- Gucci the Pomeranian, who saved her owner from a house fire Monday night. With the help of his neighbors, Rutonski and Gucci made it out safely as the house continued to burn. Rutonski, 58, was taken to the hospital to check for smoke inhalation, and credits Gucci with saving his life. "As they say, man's best friend is his dog," Rutonski told Seven News. Most of the house, which Rutonski was renting, has been destroyed, with the roof partially collapsed, Nine News reported.
Fashion gaffes show lack of diversity
Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Entertainment(CNN) - Last month, fashion house Chanel appointed its first head of diversity and inclusion. But what they collectively reveal is that the fashion industry is struggling -- at times -- to keep up with tech-savvy consumers who are ready to call out companies in real-time for insensitive imagery. In 2018, The Business of Fashion found diversity to be lacking at the highest levels of leadership after studying 15 of the largest public companies in fashion. Take the snarky Diet Prada, an Instagram account (with a cult following of 1.5 million "Dieters") that calls out copycat scandals and hypocrisy in the fashion industry. "The (American) fashion industry ... has so far struggled to reflect the country's diversity in its workforce across all levels," the briefing stated.
Gucci hires diversity chief after blackface scandal
Scott Barbour/Getty Images(CNN) - Gucci has hired a new person to oversee its diversity and inclusion efforts following the disastrous publicity it received for selling a racist sweater. The Italian fashion house announced Tuesday that it has hired Rene Tirado as its new global head of diversity, equity and inclusion. Tirado will be in charge of designing and implementing a new strategy to "create a more inclusive and equitable workplace and increase workforce diversity," Gucci said in a release. Gucci apologized, saying in a statement at the time that it's "fully committed to increasing diversity throughout our organization and turning this incident into a powerful learning moment for the Gucci team and beyond." "As a learning organization, we have challenged ourselves over the last few months to accelerate our vision to develop a stronger organization."
Italian airline apologizes over Obama blackface video
Claudio Villa/Getty Images(CNN) - Italian airline Alitalia has apologized for a promotional video that featured an actor in blackface portraying former US President Barack Obama. The airline has removed the video and apologized after receiving a flood of complaints. "Alitalia deeply apologizes for the offense caused by the promotional video on our Washington route," tweeted Alitalia. "This @Alitalia video showcasing a silent blackfaced "Obama" is reprehensive on so many levels: racism, extreme provincialism, willful ignorance of facts, lack of historic knowledge," tweeted one user. In February, Italian fashion house Gucci apologized and discontinued a sweater that social media users said resembles blackface because of its design.