How did the most photographed fashion brand in the world showcase its spring-summer 2017 collection in Milan yesterday? On a crepuscular pink catwalk so dimly illuminated that even the Instagram-addicted front row were forced to abandon their mobiles. Luckily these days Gucci is as much about disco glitter as it is about the snaffle bit, so the clothes still shimmered through the candy floss-hued dusk. Was this a perverse staging choice by Alessandro Michele, the Gucci designer who has reinvented the once moribund brand, both creatively and financially, in less than two years? But it may also have been…

Source: The Times September 21, 2016 23:16 UTC