I like London in the rain. I also love me a good knee-high boot. Obviously, I was not granted the FW14 press release but if it’s anything like Nicole Phelps’ review on Style.com I can tell you that James Franco did a movie about Frida Giannini (Gucci’s creative director) and this incited her to go down the brand’s memory lane, stopping in London during the 1960s.
Even though word on the street style is far from this cultural reference point, Frida never really gave a damn about following trends. She usually gets an idea in her head and executes it to the point where people like me wish Gucci was more trendy these days. I’ve got a stockpile of handbags, shoes and accessories from my own Gucci heyday – but every time I wear them I feel so anachronistic next to the sneaker trend, camel coats and mesh jerseys. One thing I’m really looking forward to is the resurgence of the mule this spring. My patent leather Gucci Hysteria mules are on the tip of my tongue.
But I wonder if Frida will be able to make snakeskin knee-high boots a thing fit for fashion doyennes? There’s something derogatory about snakeskin, in my honest opinion, that I sometimes find it hard to visualize anything but the fifth Spice Girl who lost out to Geri Halliwell, stuck somewhere in Manchester with a potbelly and broken dreams. That’s just me. Also, when we’re talking real snakeskin that’s a horse of a different colour. I should rephrase – imitation snakeskin print is derogatory. So is imitation crab.
