Gucci’s spring-summer 2023 collection was presented in a next generational dystopia where two are “utterly opposite” (per custom soundtrack) in reference to the magnificent cast of 68 sets of identical twins on the runway. Totally opposite, utterly different was the theme for Alessandro Michele’s Gucci Twinsburg. He explained in his show notes, “As if by magic, clothes duplicate. They seem to lose their status of singularity. The effect is alienating and ambiguous. Almost a rift in the idea of identity, and then, the revelation: the same clothes emanate different qualities on seemingly identical bodies. Fashion, after all, lives on serial multiplications that don’t hamper the most genuine expression of every possible individuality.”

Mesmerized by the march of the twins, it gave off a feeling of rebirth and a rejoining of community. Each held hands walking down the runway only to split off into two, into their own entities.

Sometimes in life letting go is hard, but truly necessary.

Watch the full show video below.