Today, we went to the Gucci Museum. I was extremely excited
to explore the histroy of Gucci. I am a huge fan of Gucci handbags, clothing and accessories.
Hopefully one day I will be able to afford one of his gorgeous handbags!
I will take you through each room
in the Gucci museum. The first room displayed the traveling/luggage line of
Guccio Gucci. I learned today that he first gained an interest in handbags and
travelware as a liftboy at the Savoy Hotel in London. Gucci first specialized
in travelware, where in the 1950’s the red and green stripe on luggage became a
symbol of the Gucci line. The travel room in the Gucci museum had a variety of
suitcases and duffels from the 1950’s-1960’s with the red/green stripe label. This
room also displayed luggage with the GG label and the diamonte canvas print.
During the 1950’s, Gucci became known for the GG label on his designs as well
as the diamonte canvas. Even today, Gucci is still known for his diamonte
pieces.
The next room was the Flora room.
This room displayed the floral pattern that Gucci created in 1966 to honor
Grace Kelly of Monaco. His first piece in floral was a scarf and was shown in
the entryway to the flora room. The Floral pattern became an immediate success
and continues today in the Gucci brand.
The evening room was one of my
favorites. This room was filled with gowns worn by celebrities on the red
carpet. My favorite gown in the collection was one worn by Hilary Swank in
2011. The gown was strapless with
silk and beaded embroidery. The bottom of the gown was a completely made of
white, purple and pink feathers.
I did not enjoy the Paul Fryer Lo Spirito Vola contemporary exhibit.
One of his pieces was Ophelia (the character from Shakespeare) drowning in
water wearing a black floor length gown. I found this piece to be quite disturbing. Another one
of his pieces was a thorn crown with a floating egg. This piece symbolized
eternity of life. This piece was interesting; however, I am not fond of modern
art and did not quite understand the message of this work.
The last room of the museum was
the LOGOMANIA room. This room was everything GG! All pieces in this room
embodied the GG label. There were gowns completely covered in the GG label and
diamonte canvas. There were Gucci plates, bags, horse-riding equipment, tennis
equipment etc.. everything was
there!
Thats all for now...
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