Memes Can Wait, Ranveer Singh’s Gucci Look Is Gucci Boss-Approved. See Alessandro Michele’s Comment
Ranveer Singh shared this image. (Image courtesy: Ranveersingh)
Highlights Ranveer modelled for Gucci’s new collection
It was inspired by Gucci’s Alessandro Michele
“Alessandro, my beloved,” Ranveer captioned his posts
The Internet frequently buzzes with memes, with more than a little help from Ranveer Singh who has worn everything from a septum ring on a magazine cover to skirts on red carpets to a high ponytail at an award show. This time, however, his look screams haute fashion, given the fact that he was dressed in Gucci’s collection and his OTT look inspiration was from the high-end fashion brand itself - Gucci’s Creative Director Alessandro Michele. Ranveer kept sharing his looks on social media on Wednesday. For some he became the source of meme gold, other’s referred to him as the Bollywood equivalent of Jared Leto. Alessandro Michele, who was the inspiration of Ranveer’s look, going by the actor’s caption (“Alessandro, my beloved,” Ranveer captioned his posts), was all hearts. He dropped heart emojis on Ranveer’s post. “Love you, my favourite,” was Ranveer Singh’s reply.
See Ranveer Singh and Alessandro Michele’s Instagram exchange here:
Screenshot of comments on Ranveer Singh’s post.
About Ranveer Singh’s look - he picked metallic separates in shades of blue, threw over a Gucci trench coat. He accentuated his look with tinted sunglasses, a red hat, hair extension, a handbag and some gold jewelry (actually, a lot of gold jewelry). Bottom-line - Gender-neutral power dressing is Ranveer Singh’s department and he aces it like a boss.
Check out Ranveer Singh’s posts here:
Ranveer Singh’s next project is Kabir Khan’s sports drama ‘83, which will showcase India’s iconic win at the 1983 cricket World Cup. In the film, Ranveer stars as the legendary cricketer Kapil Dev, while Deepika Padukone features as Kapil Dev’s onscreen wife Romi Bhatia. Ranveer Singh will also be seen in Yash Raj Films’ Jayeshbhai Jordaar.
The actor was last seen in the 2019 hit Gully Boy, co-starring Alia Bhatt, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Kalki Koechlin. The film was directed by Zoya Akhtar. The actor has a cameo appearance in Rohit Shetty’s cop drama Sooryavanshi, starring Akshay Kumar in the lead role. The actor also signed another project with Rohit Shetty, which is titled Cirkus. The film is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy Of Errors.
Nose rings and glitter: Gucci reveals ‘dialogue with otherness’
From high street to catwalk, collaboration is a mainstay of fashion now. But Gucci’s show on Thursday afternoon – one that celebrated the brand’s 100th anniversary – stepped the idea up a gear.
Gucci’s creative director, Alessandro Michele, worked with the designs of one of his biggest rivals for influence – Balenciaga’s Demna Gvasalia. The resulting items featured the Balenciaga logo and Gucci monogram and looked like very expensive bootlegs. They had exactly the kind of postmodern take on branding that gets a lot of play in the Instagram era.
The show opened with a version of the red velvet suit that Gwyneth Paltrow wore in 1996. Photograph: Daniele Venturelli/Getty for Gucci
The rest of the show – a film directed by Michele with the director Floria Sigismondi – achieved that too. It featured models in harnesses with whips, feathered trousers, men in crop tops, and live rabbits carried down a runway. Gucci fans would recognise designs that were originally created by Michele’s most notable predecessor, Tom Ford, including the red velvet suit that Gwyneth Paltrow wore in 1996, a version of which opened this show.
There were also trucker hats reading ‘100’, riding boots and lots of glitter. Some models wore jewelled nose rings that could potentially be charged with cultural appropriation; they recalled the nathori worn by Bengali women to denote marital status.
Look 39 at Thursday’s show. Creative director Alessandro Michele says he is ‘establishing a dialogue with otherness’. Photograph: Daniele Venturelli/Getty for Gucci
There was a loose narrative. Models entered a club called Savoy (a reference to the hotel, where the founder Guccio Gucci worked as a young man) at the start, walked down a catwalk with flashbulbs and ended up in a secret garden, bonding with more rabbits, as well as peacocks and horses. The 15-minute film showcased clothes, but also another chance to spend time inside Michele’s imaginarium.
After the film was streamed for journalists, there was a digital press conference. Michele explained that the work with Balenciaga – a brand that is also part of the Kering group – was a logical conclusion to his time at Gucci so far. He said “establishing a dialogue with otherness” was central, adding: “I have been an excellent thief, a robber.”
Gvasalia approved of the idea of lending his designs to Michele: “Demna really enjoyed the idea of me using his patterns, his styles to make something else,” said Michele. Gvasalia’s Balenciaga designs – typically more architectural and artistic – were Guccified. “I added a bit of light, a bit of glitter,” said Michele.
Look 20 from the Gucci show in Rome. Photograph: Daniele Venturelli/Getty for Gucci
Michele, as that thief or robber, is keen to embrace other people’s interpretations of Gucci – the soundtrack of the show featured songs that referenced the brand in the lyrics – and make new Guccis by disrupting norms of luxury. This could be read as close to an art project, but there’s also strategy there. “I think this rejuvenation is the only way to make fashion live,” he said.
A show in April puts Gucci firmly outside the industry’s fashion calendar. When the pandemic hit in May last year, the brand – which was a longtime fixture on the Milan schedule – announced it would now be seasonless, and move from showing five collections a year to two. According to Michele, this took into account the different climates of Gucci’s global audience and addressed the environmental impact of producing multiple collections.
Since then Gucci has presented a collection in July worn by the designers in the studio and livestreamed – and at GucciFest in November – a series of films co-directed by Gus Van Sant.
Logomania Is Coming for Your Face
Confined to small portraits on Zoom screens for more than a year, many have found alternative means for self-expression. Colorful hair, dramatic jewelry, and pouf-sleeve tops have all been on the rise—the better to show off a little style onscreen. Now, there’s another way to express yourself: monogram face jewelry.
This isn’t just about the new Prada triangle earring or Balenciaga’s logo shoulder grazer. Both Gucci and Chanel have shown monogrammed facial jewelry in their resort 2022 collections, with tiny interlocked Gs dangling from a septum piercing and a CC charm hanging from a faux lip ring. The piercings are definitely fake—no commitment necessary—and definitely noticeable. Rendered as they are in crystal, the intention seems to be to draw attention to previously unloved areas of the face and add a punkish influence to otherwise elegant fashion. Speaking with Vogue’s Hamish Bowles, Virginie Viard said the lip rings shown in her Chanel collection were an homage to the late, great Stella Tennant, a favorite model of Karl Lagerfeld’s, known for her septum piercing in the ’90s.
Photographed by Acielle / StyleDuMonde
The trend for small, monogrammed bits and baubles doesn’t begin or end with nostrils and lips. Micro-monogram prints, like Versace’s new interlocking key motif and Gucci’s heritage Gs, are seeing an uptick in search and sales, according to reports like Lyst’s quarterly data drop. The most popular item of 2021 so far, per the search aggregator, is Gucci’s monogram puffer made in collaboration with The North Face. We expect Fendi’s cursive-F tights, Balmain’s geometric-spiral blazers, and Givenchy’s G chain necklaces to soon join the most-wanted lists for the fall—small pleasures for a reemergence wardrobe. The septum piercings and lip rings might be only for the brave…or the social-media savvy. A Chanel crystal kiss would look great on Instagram.