Is Gucci Stylish or Tacky? Yes-4
Look at Gucci's SoHo
shop: A couple of blocks
over is the new Philipp
Plein store, a Times
Square interpretation of
Madison Avenue; and a couple of blocks south, I
saw the bootleggers out in
full force, their fake
Goyard and Gucci and
Supreme standing tall
against the hard spring breeze. All of this is luxury now.
That Mr. Michele knows
that makes him the most
provocative and devious of
major-house designers.
Unlike Demna Gvasalia, who is making luxury out of
satire (or vice versa), Mr.
Michele is the joke. He is in on it. He has all the
cheat codes. As a result, Gucci has
become a litmus test for
your own tackiness. It
reimagines Ed Hardy
through the lens of Tom
Ford. It employs the strategies of 1990s hip-hop
street wear and children's
clothing. If you wear it, are
you sincere? Ironic? Post-
ironic? Lil Uzi Vert? It may
not get any more nouveau riche than this.Source:New York Times
shop: A couple of blocks
over is the new Philipp
Plein store, a Times
Square interpretation of
Madison Avenue; and a couple of blocks south, I
saw the bootleggers out in
full force, their fake
Goyard and Gucci and
Supreme standing tall
against the hard spring breeze. All of this is luxury now.
That Mr. Michele knows
that makes him the most
provocative and devious of
major-house designers.
Unlike Demna Gvasalia, who is making luxury out of
satire (or vice versa), Mr.
Michele is the joke. He is in on it. He has all the
cheat codes. As a result, Gucci has
become a litmus test for
your own tackiness. It
reimagines Ed Hardy
through the lens of Tom
Ford. It employs the strategies of 1990s hip-hop
street wear and children's
clothing. If you wear it, are
you sincere? Ironic? Post-
ironic? Lil Uzi Vert? It may
not get any more nouveau riche than this.Source:New York Times
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