GUCCI’s wild experiment with the Fall Winter 2018 catwalk show

It took Gucci six months to create a life-sized replica of a human head, identical to the model who carried it on the runway. Whether you’re a Lord Of The Rings fan or perhaps entranced with the Biblical story of Salome, the Fall Winter 2018-19 GUCCI show in Milan had numerous phantasmagorical highlights: from models carrying “dragon puppies” and iguanas in place of handbags, to the faun horns that poked out from under their curly hair, to the lucky few who got to carry a life-sized simulacrum of their own heads, Alessandro Michele’s imagination was allowed to run riot. Makinarium, a Rome-based production centre which specialises in physical and visual special effects, transformed the”Gucci cyborg” into a reality.

Michele’s inventions required models to have moulds of their heads made using silicone and polyurethane resins, with their skulls 3D-scanned using green screen technology in order to create life-sized, identical effigies that the models then carried on the runway – the fashion version of a Cephalophore, if you will. The dragon was inspired by “The Legend of the Baby Dragon in a Jar”, a reference to a hoax staged by the Oxford-based author Allistair Mitchell who, in 2004, concocted a story about a dragon preserved in a jar that he had found in his garage.

Michele reportedly made contact with Makinarium after having seen The Tale of Tales, a 2015 dark fantasy film directed by Matteo Garrone, starring Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly, which critics described as a “sumptuous, grotesque adaptation of the 17th-century yarns of Neopolitan poet Giambattista Basile”.

adapted from Vogue

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