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For the spring/summer 2023 show at Milan Fashion Week, his last for Gucci, Michele recruited more than 100 sets of identical twins. AP
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FILE - Designer Alessandro Michele acknowledges the applause of the audience at the end of Gucci's Fall/Winter 2020/2021 collection, presented in Milan, Italy, Feb, 19, 2020. Michele is leaving his role as creative director of the Gucci, the fashion house announced Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022 bringing an end to an eight-year tenure that sharply redefined Gucci’s codes with romanticism and gender-fluidity, all the while powering revenues for the Kering parent. (AP Photo / Luca Bruno, File)
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With his debut show for Gucci in February 2015, Michele made the brand one of the hottest on the planet. Photo: Gucci
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Michele unveiled the Gucci cruise 2017 collection at The Cloisters in Westminster Abbey - the first time a show had been staged at the 1,000-year-old building. Photo: Gucci
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For autumn/winter 2018, Michele sent models down the Gucci runway carrying their own synthetic heads, in a move that was both macabre and strangely beautiful. Photo: Gucci
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For the same autumn/winter 2018 show, one model tenderly clutched a 'baby dragon' as she walked the runway. Photo: Gucci
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Also in 2018, Gucci enlisted singer Harry Styles for its cruise men's tailoring campaign. Photo: Gucci
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The cruise 2019 show was staged in Alyscamps, the ancient graveyard of Arles in France, lit entirely by flames. Photo: Gucci
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For autumn/winter 2020, Michele brought the full chaos of backstage on display. The show unfolded like a mesmeric piece of performance art. Getty Images
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Gucci staged its spring/summer 2022 Gucci Love Parade show on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Reuters
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Michele's long-time friend, actor Jared Leto, whom he sent down the runway for the Love Parade show. AP
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For the spring/summer 2023 show at Milan Fashion Week, his last for Gucci, Michele recruited more than 100 sets of identical twins. AP
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FILE - Designer Alessandro Michele acknowledges the applause of the audience at the end of Gucci's Fall/Winter 2020/2021 collection, presented in Milan, Italy, Feb, 19, 2020. Michele is leaving his role as creative director of the Gucci, the fashion house announced Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022 bringing an end to an eight-year tenure that sharply redefined Gucci’s codes with romanticism and gender-fluidity, all the while powering revenues for the Kering parent. (AP Photo / Luca Bruno, File)
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With his debut show for Gucci in February 2015, Michele made the brand one of the hottest on the planet. Photo: Gucci
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Michele unveiled the Gucci cruise 2017 collection at The Cloisters in Westminster Abbey - the first time a show had been staged at the 1,000-year-old building. Photo: Gucci
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For autumn/winter 2018, Michele sent models down the Gucci runway carrying their own synthetic heads, in a move that was both macabre and strangely beautiful. Photo: Gucci
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For the same autumn/winter 2018 show, one model tenderly clutched a 'baby dragon' as she walked the runway. Photo: Gucci
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Also in 2018, Gucci enlisted singer Harry Styles for its cruise men's tailoring campaign. Photo: Gucci
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The cruise 2019 show was staged in Alyscamps, the ancient graveyard of Arles in France, lit entirely by flames. Photo: Gucci
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For autumn/winter 2020, Michele brought the full chaos of backstage on display. The show unfolded like a mesmeric piece of performance art. Getty Images
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Gucci staged its spring/summer 2022 Gucci Love Parade show on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Reuters
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Michele's long-time friend, actor Jared Leto, whom he sent down the runway for the Love Parade show. AP
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For the spring/summer 2023 show at Milan Fashion Week, his last for Gucci, Michele recruited more than 100 sets of identical twins. AP
Alessandro Michele's top runway moments for Gucci
As the designer leaves the label after seven years as creative director, we look back at some of his most defining shows
Sarah Maisey
24 November, 2022
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