Gucci Palace
The Gucci collaboration juggernaut is still going strong. Following recent normcore-chic collaborations with The North Face, luxury hackings with Balenciaga, and retro sports home runs with Adidas, the Italian conglomerate has teamed up with Palace for a new “experiment.”
According to Alessandro Michele, the maximalist fashion house and London skater favourite have more in common than one might think. Both brands have an undeniable influence on youth culture, but they also use that energy to fuel their own creations. “This didn’t happen by chance, but rather from the will of people who shared the same things, from heterogeneity, from the street, and there is really a bit of everything inside,” says Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, who has long admired Lev Tanju and Gareth Skewis’s counter-cultural vision for Palace.
Clothes
The clothes, of course, are a hypebeast’s dream. Michele encouraged Palace to branch out into womenswear for the first time with tailored skirt suits, monogrammed minis, and the now-required crop tops, but the logo-heavy collection aims to please everyone. Among the standouts? A cool new take on the Gucci loafer, with a “P charm” linked around the gold horsebit hardware and the separates repeatedly stamped with Gucci’s double-G and Palace’s tri-ferg tag.
Vault
Sports socks, slides, and tees will fly off the virtual shelves of the Gucci Vault on October 21, while collectibles, such as a 50-piece V7 motorbike edit realised with Moto Guzzi, will have streetwear fans queuing around the block at pop-up shops and Palace store takeovers. The new-look Palace windows in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo – the first time the brand has ever allowed another creative to reconfigure them – are just as exciting for dedicated Lev supporters as the new duffle bags.
