It was as though someone had been paging through Rizzoli's recent tome devoted to the first 10 years of Another Man magazine, with the likes of Bobby Gillespie fearlessly carrying on the legacy of Mick 'n' Keef, wearing their girlfriends' chiffon and crepe, effortlessly easing snake hips into skinny trousers. But there may actually have been a curious commonality in the fact that she was always inspired by musicians, and the clothes here also felt rooted in a subcultural music scene. Inevitably, the droopy, androgynous languor of the show and its blurred gender divide (a curious concomitant of Prada's presentation last night) cast a very different spell from Giannini's recent collections. Scarcely credible, but if you ever needed proof of the ancient adage that where there's a will, there's a way, then here it was.
Frida Giannini left the company earlier than planned, and the menswear collection she was to present today was replaced in every last detail, right down to the model casting and the seating arrangement for the show. Gucci couldn't wait for the future a second longer.
