While the Gucci Spring/Summer woman may be a librarian stuck in a time-warp between the 70’s and 50’s, it is truly refreshing and relieving to escape London Fashion Week and move on to the better constructed, designed, and executed Milan Fashion Week, where we will see the top designers we love.
Lace, silk taffeta, silk textile suits, and lots and lots of print fabrics too bold to bear strut the runway. The palette included a wide range of bright hues: grassy green, the signature Gucci red and navy stripe, ruddy tangerine embroidered with baby blue white and gray, peachy nude, old-world map prints, muted mint, coral, cerulean, violet and purple. There were also abstract rose gold, pink, and lavender foil appliqués topping green and yellow, golden rod and green, and yellow and violet print sheer zigzag prints. Floral broaches, black sheer chiffon, ruffles, and tailored skirt suits bid an ode to the 70’s, as did those western pant suits embroidered with snakes and flowers with baby blue button-ups and wacky ties popping from underneath the jackets with small high sitting notched lapels. Unfortunately we did see the yellow sofa of the 70’s repurposed into a more relaxed suit. The bishop collar and midi length did also evoke an appropriately dated tone to the collection. The look I hated most was the knit dress and cape: the salmon, coral, teal, yellow and orange along with the fit and the glasses was simply too granny for me to stomach, which begs the question, do we really want to see women dress like this? Furthermore, the menswear seemed to mirror the Burberry menswear collection, only with much less glamour and more 70’s kitsch and flare. Lace shirts and shorts, that horrid rose embroidered silk suit, effeminate dangling jewelry… he’s too dandy to be androgynous.
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Perry Uwanawich is an American fashion designer and illustrator- AuricWear.com; fashion, beauty, and lifestyle blogger at Subversive.Style; and Spirituality Lifestyle Blogger at TheGypsyMystic.com. Perry has a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from The Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, two certifications in Fashion Design and Industrial Sewing, and has a background in graphic design, marketing, journalism, and fashion design.
Perry Uwanawich launched two fashion collections, the first called Deity Greek Wear, while enrolled full-time in college, and the second in 2020 called Auric Wear available at AuricWear.com and on Etsy. While pursuing a Certification in Fashion Design, Marketing, Public Relations, and Photography, he became the Parsons Teen Vogue Ambassador and created multimedia content which was included in the course. He completed another Certification in Industrial Sewing and was placed as an Industrial Sewing Machine Operator in a Rhode Island mill, working in production sewing for Military, Bags, and Medical Health industries.
Perry Uwanawich has worked in retail, acted as a graphic designer for multiple brands creating graphic prints for screenprinted garments. His marketing experience spans several industries from Fashion to Media, Medical Billing to the Medical Field- he's created graphics, logos, digital and print media assets, designed and managed websites (HTML, XHTML, CSS, WordPress…), managed social media accounts, and created marketing campaigns and ad campaigns which drove significant traffic in the local and national markets for respective industries. He has experience with photo and video editing, re-touching, motion graphics, and also worked as a freelance makeup artist working in Beauty as well as SFX makeup.
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